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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 merchandiseplay

  Familiarity information: SELL UP used as a verb is very rare.


 Dictionary entry details 


SELL UP (verb)


Sense 1

Meaning:

Sell or get rid of all one's merchandise

Classified under:

Verbs of buying, selling, owning

Synonyms:

liquidize; sell out; sell up

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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