Definitions for selling

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selling sell·ing

Spelling: [sel-ing]

IPA: /ˈsɛl ɪŋ/

Selling is a 7 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 8 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 12 points.

You can make 134 anagrams from letters in selling (egillns).

Definitions for selling

noun

1. an act or method of selling.
2. Stock Exchange. a security to be sold.
3. Informal. a cheat; hoax.

Idioms

1. sell short. short (def 49).
2. sell someone a bill of goods. bill of goods (def 3).

adjective

1. of or relating to a sale or sales:
2. engaged in selling:
3. readily salable; in strong demand (often used in combination):

Verb phrases

1. sell off, to sell, especially at reduced prices, in order to get rid of:
2. sell out, to dispose of entirely by selling. to betray (an associate, one's country, a cause, etc.); turn traitor:
3. sell up, British. to sell out:

verb (used with object)

1. to transfer (goods) to or render (services) for another in exchange for money; dispose of to a purchaser for a price:
2. to deal in; keep or offer for sale:
3. to make a sale or offer for sale to:
4. to persuade or induce (someone) to buy something:
5. to persuade or induce someone to buy (something):
6. to make sales of:
7. to cause to be accepted, especially generally or widely:
8. to cause or persuade to accept; convince:
9. to accept a price for or make a profit of (something not a proper object for such action):
10. to force or exact a price for:
11. Informal. to cheat, betray, or hoax.

verb (used without object)

1. to engage in selling something.
2. to be on sale.
3. to offer something for sale:
4. to be employed to persuade or induce others to buy, as a salesperson or a clerk in a store:
5. to have a specific price; be offered for sale at the price indicated (followed by at or for):
6. to be in demand by buyers:
7. to win acceptance, approval, or adoption:

Origin of selling

First recorded in 1765-75; sell¹ + -ing²

Examples for selling

There is just no way of selling this picture with an innocent defense like, “she just asked for a snap.”

Well, I'm buying and she's selling, and we'll have that money back.

I have seen legislators bought like bullocks--they selling themselves.

We see a system that will indict a 20-year-old for selling crack but not a police officer for choking the life out of a citizen.

The process of co-opting black music and selling it back to the adoring public in whiteface is as American as apple pie.

He regretted to say that the book was not selling so well as he had hoped it would sell.

He was not selling “loosies” that day, no cigarettes were found on his person, and thus there was no probable cause in play.

Even the legendary 1980s televisions show Dallas is back on the air, selling its twenty-first century brand of Texas bravado.

There's no reason why these books should not keep on selling.

It is only a question of buying upon his part and of selling upon mine.