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SELLER

Pronunciation (US):

(GB):

 I. (noun) 

Sense 1

Meaning:

Someone who promotes or exchanges goods or services for money

Synonyms:

marketer; seller; trafficker; vender; vendor

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

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)

Credits

 Context examples: 

You likely have a contract or another paper to sign with a business client, or a buyer or seller in your personal life, and will wisely need to see the other party face-to-face.

(AstrologyZone.com, by Susan Miller)

Then a month later, you hear from the seller that the people who won the bid were having problems getting a mortgage approved, and you get a second chance to try for your dream apartment again.

(AstrologyZone.com, by Susan Miller)