SOLD

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does sold mean? 

• SOLD (adjective)
  The adjective SOLD has 1 sense:

1. disposed of to a purchaser

  Familiarity information: SOLD used as an adjective is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• SOLD (adjective)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Disposed of to a purchaser

Context example:

this merchandise is sold

Similar:

oversubscribed (sold in excess of available supply especially season tickets)

sold-out (sold completely in advance)

Antonym:

unsold (not disposed of by purchase)

 Context examples 

It is also made in the laboratory and sold as a supplement.

(Melatonin, NCI Dictionary)

He was glad the last manuscript was sold and that he would soon be done with it all.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)

Yes, sir, it was I who sold Dr. Barnicot his two statues.

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

You were a part of the trade of your home, and were bought and sold like any other vendible thing your people dealt in.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

This is because most fish caught in developing countries is either sent abroad directly or processed and sold to richer nations.

(Fairer fish trade could fix nutrient deficiencies in coastal countries, SciDev.Net)

I earned it, and I don't think you'll blame me, for I only sold what was my own.

(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)

Edward is only to hold the living till the person to whom the Colonel has really sold the presentation, is old enough to take it.

(Sense and Sensibility, by Jane Austen)

Look at these nails, and see if they are not the same as that which he has sold you.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Says he, 'Cap'n Silver, you're sold out. Ship's gone.'

(Treasure Island, by Robert Louis Stevenson)

They are never sold upon hats.

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