to sell off
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3.5
- phrasal verb
- /sɛl ɔf/
- The store decided to sell off last season's clothing at half the original price.
- sell off property
- government sell off assets
- begin to sell off
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Watch on YouTubeDid you see how stocks sold off a lot yesterday?
- Did you see how stocks sold off a lot yesterday?
- Knight had no choice but to sell off the stocks it had bought.
- When Bitcoin went down so much, people like selling off, panicking.
- Thankfully we were wholesaling to offset losses, you know, sold off some rentals, other things.
- We've hit that mark and we're now seeing these people start selling off these assets.
- So people are selling off their country because of greed.
- And, you know, there's mountains that the UN is going to buy up and then sell off and develop.
- Parts that still fit to other power plants in in other countries will probably be sold off and the rest will just be trashed.
- And so they started, they spun off Allstate, obviously, they sold Dean Witter Discover in a package deal and they sold off Coldwell Banker.
- Thatcher's drive to sell off council houses because I knew it would lead to what it has LED.
- The whole thing about it, it just seems like a a power play from us to ban it from China, which will force the owner to sell off shares.
- And again there if you're going to sell off the loan the next day, you don't really care whether the appraisal supports the loan.
- And eventually they may have to sell off some of the the multi family loans as at the at the discount.
- Express VPN is an app that prevents your phone carrier from being able to see the sites you visit and sell off to third parties.
- Ultimately you sell off your losing position and then you lock in your loss.
- And I literally woke up, shut all the shops, shut all the warehouses, sold all the stock off, sold off my website, niched it in a day.
- They're act they've sold off all their plastic water bottle companies.
- So you and Neil end up selling off all the clients and everything else and then what happens?
Examples
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Walter was just selling off some land.
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I've made a list of my assets, and I plan to sell off whatever I don't need.
Fiction book (2000) -
Ultimately you sell off your losing position and then you lock in your loss.
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So when the stock market is selling off, it's nothing more than things going on sale.
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I went back home to sell off the rest of my stuff.
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That means that the company is in such trouble that we're going to shut it down and sell off all the assets.
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Knight had no choice but to sell off the stocks it had bought.
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The main house and some ancillary properties will be sold off.
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We've hit that mark and we're now seeing these people start selling off these assets.
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Following the war, the government sold off the fleet for roughly 28 cents on the dollar.
Academic text (2017)
Synonyms
35
3.5
To sell something to the person who offers the most money at a public sale
26
6.3
Sell goods, often to clear old stock
22
7.3
To sell a company's goods and property to pay debts
11
7.5
Sell off an asset or part of a business
7
4.3
Sell all remaining stock at low prices to end a business
1
6.4
To sell investments to get cash
1
7.5
To sell all goods and things you own to get cash
Antonyms
How Privatized
- Specialized
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8.4
102
3.5
435
3.2
105
5.3
46
3.7
Surface Forms
Morphology
The core idea of disposing of something is derivable from 'sell' (transfer ownership) plus 'off' (indicating removal or getting rid of), so a B1 learner who knows both words would likely infer that it means to sell something away. However, finer aspects—selling quickly, often at reduced prices or to clear surplus—are pragmatic/presuppositional details that are not fully predictable from the constituents alone, so the expression is only partially compositional.
Etymology
Sell off comes from the simple image of a shopkeeper taking old goods off the shelf and selling them quickly and cheaply to clear space or get money. So, it means 'to sell something quickly, often at reduced prices'.