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SELL UP

Pronunciation (US):

(GB):

 I. (verb) 

Sense 1

Meaning:

Sell or get rid of all one's merchandise

Synonyms:

liquidize; sell out; sell up

Classified under:

Verbs of buying, selling, owning

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:

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