SELL OFF

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does sell off mean? 

• SELL OFF (verb)
  The verb SELL OFF has 1 sense:

1. get rid of by selling, usually at reduced prices

  Familiarity information: SELL OFF used as a verb is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• SELL OFF (verb)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Get rid of by selling, usually at reduced prices

Classified under:

Verbs of buying, selling, owning

Context example:

The store sold off the surplus merchandise

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)

 Context examples 

Then he have an auction in that house, and advertise it, and put up big notice; and when the day come he sell off by a great auctioneer all the goods of that other man who own them.

(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)