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SELLING
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
The exchange of goods for an agreed sum of money
Synonyms:
marketing; merchandising; selling
Classified under:
Nouns denoting acts or actions
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"):
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)
sellout (the selling of an entire stock of something)
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)
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)
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)
II. (verb)
Sense 1
-ing form of the verb sell
Context examples:
It was just at sundown when we cast anchor in a most beautiful land-locked gulf, and were immediately surrounded by shore boats full of Negroes and Mexican Indians and half-bloods selling fruits and vegetables and offering to dive for bits of money.
(Treasure Island, by Robert Louis Stevenson)
It was the fifteenth of January, about nine o'clock in the morning: Bessie was gone down to breakfast; my cousins had not yet been summoned to their mama; Eliza was putting on her bonnet and warm garden-coat to go and feed her poultry, an occupation of which she was fond: and not less so of selling the eggs to the housekeeper and hoarding up the money she thus obtained.
(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)
An associate's degree awarded upon completion of a course of study usually lasting two years with a focus on business, including the processes of interchanging goods and services (buying, selling and producing), business organization, and accounting as used in profit-making and nonprofit public and private institutions and agencies.
(Associate of Business Administration, NCI Thesaurus)
This tells me you might be interviewing for a job that focuses on money markets or the selling of goods or services.
(AstrologyZone.com, by Susan Miller)
They had brought out a first edition of fifteen hundred copies and been dubious of selling it.
(Martin Eden, by Jack London)
It must have been dreadfully hard, after working so long and setting your heart on selling your own pretty things.
(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)
Neither could I be wholly unmoved, after comparing the living with the dead, when I considered how all these pure native virtues were prostituted for a piece of money by their grand-children; who, in selling their votes and managing at elections, have acquired every vice and corruption that can possibly be learned in a court.
(Gulliver's Travels into several remote nations of the world, by Jonathan Swift)
Your third house, where this eclipse will light, rules travel, communications, contracts, and buying and selling.
(AstrologyZone.com, by Susan Miller)
"It is a most marvellous happening," Singletree, Darnley & Co. wrote Martin, a critical philosophic essay selling like a novel.
(Martin Eden, by Jack London)
It was silly, I dare say, but it changed his mind, for I got rather excited, and told the story in my topsy-turvy way, and his wife heard, and said so kindly, 'Take it, Thomas, and oblige the young lady. I'd do as much for our Jimmy any day if I had a spire of hair worth selling.
(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)
