SELLER

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does seller mean? 

• SELLER (noun)
  The noun SELLER has 1 sense:

1. someone who promotes or exchanges goods or services for money

  Familiarity information: SELLER used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• SELLER (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Someone who promotes or exchanges goods or services for money

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Synonyms:

marketer; seller; trafficker; vender; vendor

Hypernyms ("seller" is a kind of...):

merchandiser; merchant (a businessperson engaged in retail trade)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "seller"):

booking clerk; ticket agent (someone who sells tickets (e.g., theater seats or travel accommodations))

cosmetician (someone who sells or applies cosmetics)

flower girl (a woman who sells flowers in the street)

fruiterer (a person who sells fruit)

cheap-jack; huckster (a seller of shoddy goods)

hawker; packman; peddler; pedlar; pitchman (someone who travels about selling his wares (as on the streets or at carnivals))

selling agent (someone who sells goods (on commission) for others)

dealer (a seller of illicit goods)

underseller (a seller that sells at a lower price than others do)

Derivation:

sell (exchange or deliver for money or its equivalent)

sell (do business; offer for sale as for one's livelihood)

 Context examples 

Week after week his was the credit of the unprecedented performance of having two books at the head of the list of best-sellers.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)

Why, masters, quoth he, this man is a coquillart, or seller of false relics, and was here in the smithy not two hours ago.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

What a happy day for booksellers, music-sellers, and print-shops!

(Sense and Sensibility, by Jane Austen)

“I can't be buyer and seller too,” said Mr. Dolloby.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

I spent months in trying to trace them, and at last, after many doubtings and difficulties, I discovered that the original seller had been Captain Peter Carey, the owner of this hut.

(The Return of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

On December 22, landlords and brokers, and buyers and sellers of real estate will want to work with you—and you will be able to accord them easily.

(AstrologyZone.com, by Susan Miller)

I want you to take it home with you, and to mark off all the hardware sellers, with their addresses.

(The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Then with a red head of hair, and an appropriate dress, I took my station in the business part of the city, ostensibly as a match-seller but really as a beggar.

(The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

A 'best-seller' will earn anywhere between fifty and a hundred thousand dollars—sometimes more and sometimes less; but, as a rule, pretty close to those figures.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)

He is a seller of pills and salves, very learned in humors, and rheums, and fluxes, and all manner of ailments.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)