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SELL OUT
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Dictionary entry overview: What does sell out mean?
• SELL OUT (verb)
The verb SELL OUT has 2 senses:
1. sell or get rid of all one's merchandise
2. abandon one's principles for expedience or financial gain
Familiarity information: SELL OUT used as a verb is rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
Sell or get rid of all one's merchandise
Classified under:
Verbs of buying, selling, owning
Synonyms:
Hypernyms (to "sell out" is one way to...):
cast aside; cast away; cast out; chuck out; discard; dispose; fling; put away; throw away; throw out; toss; toss away; toss out (throw or cast away)
"Sell out" entails doing...:
sell (exchange or deliver for money or its equivalent)
Domain category:
commerce; commercialism; mercantilism (transactions (sales and purchases) having the objective of supplying commodities (goods and services))
Sentence frames:
Somebody ----s
Somebody ----s something
Derivation:
sellout (the selling of an entire stock of something)
Sense 2
Meaning:
Abandon one's principles for expedience or financial gain
Classified under:
Verbs of thinking, judging, analyzing, doubting
Hypernyms (to "sell out" is one way to...):
abandon; give up (stop maintaining or insisting on; of ideas or claims)
Sentence frame:
Somebody ----s
Derivation:
sellout (a betrayal of one's principles principles, country, cause, etc.)
sellout (someone who has sold out)
Context examples
He wrote to Singletree, Darnley & Co., offering to sell out his rights in "The Shame of the Sun" for a hundred dollars, but they did not care to take the risk.
(Martin Eden, by Jack London)
In spite of the improvements and additions which were making to the Norland estate, and in spite of its owner having once been within some thousand pounds of being obliged to sell out at a loss, nothing gave any symptom of that indigence which he had tried to infer from it;—no poverty of any kind, except of conversation, appeared—but there, the deficiency was considerable.
(Sense and Sensibility, by Jane Austen)
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