SELLING

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does selling mean? 

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

1. the exchange of goods for an agreed sum of money

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

 Dictionary entry details 

• SELLING (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

The exchange of goods for an agreed sum of money

Classified under:

Nouns denoting acts or actions

Synonyms:

marketing; merchandising; selling

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

commerce; commercialism; mercantilism (transactions (sales and purchases) having the objective of supplying commodities (goods and services))

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

sellout (the selling of an entire stock of something)

sale (the general activity of selling)

resale (the selling of something purchased)

hawking; peddling; vending; vendition (the act of selling goods for a living)

telecommerce; telemarketing; teleselling (the use of the telephone as an interactive medium for promotion and sales)

retailing (the activities involved in selling commodities directly to consumers)

dutch auction (a method of selling in which the price is reduced until a buyer is found)

dumping (selling goods abroad at a price below that charged in the domestic market)

syndication (selling (an article or cartoon) for publication in many magazines or newspapers at the same time)

bait and switch (a deceptive way of selling that involves advertising a product at a very low price in order to attract customers who are then persuaded to switch to a more expensive product)

sale (a particular instance of selling)

wholesale (the selling of goods to merchants; usually in large quantities for resale to consumers)

retail (the selling of goods to consumers; usually in small quantities and not for resale)

capitalisation; capitalization (the sale of capital stock)

bootlegging (the act of selling illegally or without permission)

bootlegging (the act of making or transporting alcoholic liquor for sale illegally)

private treaty (a sale of property at a price agreed on by the seller and buyer without an intervening agency)

Holonyms ("selling" is a part of...):

marketing (the commercial processes involved in promoting and selling and distributing a product or service)

Derivation:

sell (exchange or deliver for money or its equivalent)

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

sell (be sold at a certain price or in a certain way)

 Context examples 

Neptune will be close to the Sun, so if you’re selling an artistic product or idea, you should do especially well.

(AstrologyZone.com, by Susan Miller)

Health fraud involves selling drugs, devices, foods, or cosmetics that have not been proven effective.

(Health Fraud, Food and Drug Administration)

The researchers also discovered major differences in the amount of the toxic product detected, depending on the type of outlet selling the socks.

(Nine out of ten pairs of baby socks on the market contain traces of bisphenol A and parabens, University of Granada)

She was not interested in selling stories to magazines.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)

At one place a man was selling green lemonade, and when the children bought it Dorothy could see that they paid for it with green pennies.

(The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, by L. Frank Baum)

"She has sold everything she had that was worth selling, and now she is enjoying herself. The flower table is always attractive, you know, 'especially to gentlemen'."

(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)

He sets his kingdom up to the best bidder, like some scullion farrier selling a glandered horse.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

The idea for the project emerged in 2010 when Cândido Osvaldo de Moura, a Physics teacher, learned that a US company was working on a launch vehicle and selling assembly kits for small satellites that could be launched by the company.

(Satellite made by Brazilian junior high students launched in Japan, Agência Brasil)

Always, as soon as he received his liberty, he fled away, and always he fled north. He was possessed of an obsession that drove him north. The homing instinct, Irvine called it, after he had expended the selling price of a sonnet in getting the animal back from northern Oregon.

(Love of Life and Other Stories, by Jack London)

They look upon fraud as a greater crime than theft, and therefore seldom fail to punish it with death; for they allege, that care and vigilance, with a very common understanding, may preserve a man’s goods from thieves, but honesty has no defence against superior cunning; and, since it is necessary that there should be a perpetual intercourse of buying and selling, and dealing upon credit, where fraud is permitted and connived at, or has no law to punish it, the honest dealer is always undone, and the knave gets the advantage.

(Gulliver's Travels into several remote nations of the world, by Jonathan Swift)