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SELL OFF
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I. (verb)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Get rid of by selling, usually at reduced prices
Example:
The store sold off the surplus merchandise
Classified under:
Verbs of buying, selling, owning
Hypernyms (to "sell off" is one way to...):
sell (exchange or deliver for money or its equivalent)
Sentence frame:
Somebody ----s something
Derivation:
selloff (a sale of a relatively large number of assets (stocks or bonds or commodities) at a low price typically done to dispose of them rather than as normal trade)
