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SELL UP
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Dictionary entry overview: What does sell up mean?
• SELL UP (verb)
The verb SELL UP has 1 sense:
1. sell or get rid of all one's merchandise
Familiarity information: SELL UP used as a verb is very 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 up" 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 up" 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
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