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SELL OUT

Pronunciation (US):

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 I. (verb) 

Sense 1

Meaning:

Abandon one's principles for expedience or financial gain

Classified under:

Verbs of thinking, judging, analyzing, doubting

Hypernyms (to "sell out" is one way to...):

abandon; give up (stop maintaining or insisting on; of ideas or claims)

Sentence frame:

Somebody ----s

Derivation:

sellout (a betrayal of one's principles principles, country, cause, etc.)

sellout (someone who has sold out)

Sense 2

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 out" 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 out" 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:

Somebody ----s
Somebody ----s something

Derivation:

sellout (the selling of an entire stock of something)

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