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How to pronounce “sell”
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Pronunciation guide for sell
- Learning goal
- Practice the English pronunciation of sell with real speech in context.
- Available examples
- 8 YouTube examples
- Real speech example
- The Art of Persuasion
I don't sell Picassos, ladies and gentlemen.
- Definition summary
- (transitive, ditransitive, intransitive) To transfer goods or provide services in exchange for money.
Example 1 of 8
How to pronounce sell
The Art of Persuasion
I don't sell Picassos, ladies and gentlemen.
Example Sentences
A Deep Dive Into “sell”
Meaning
- [Verb]
- (transitive, ditransitive, intransitive) To transfer goods or provide services in exchange for money.
- (ergative) To be sold.
- (transitive) To promote (a product or service) although not being paid in any direct way or at all.
- (transitive) To promote (a particular viewpoint).
- (transitive) To betray for money or other things.
- (transitive, slang) To trick, cheat, or manipulate someone.
- (transitive, professional wrestling, slang) To pretend that an opponent's blows or maneuvers are causing legitimate injury; to act.
- (Australia, slang, intransitive) To throw under the bus; to let down one's own team in an endeavour, especially in a sport or a game.
- [Noun]
- An act of selling; sale.
- (figurative, by extension) The promotion of an idea for acceptance.
- An easy task.
- (colloquial, dated) An imposition, a cheat; a hoax; a disappointment; anything occasioning a loss of pride or dignity.
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