Definitions for sell-off

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sell-off sell-off

Spelling: [sel-awf, -of]

IPA: /ˈsɛlˌɔf, -ˌɒf/

Sell-Off is a 8 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 4 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 6 points.

You can make 66 anagrams from letters in sell-off (-effllos).

Definitions for sell-off

noun

1. Stock Exchange. a sudden and marked decline in stock or bond prices resulting from widespread selling.
2. an act or instance of liquidating assets or subsidiaries, as by divestiture.

Origin of sell-off

First recorded in 1935-40; noun use of verb phrase sell off

Examples for sell-off

Only in the midst of a sell-off tinged by group-think could these numbers be made to be bad.

This sell-off speaks to the continuing anxiety that a world not led by the United States and Europe and Japan is a world adrift.