unsold
10
1.4
- adjective
- /ʌnˈsoʊld/
:
sin vender
- All this contributed to a surplus of unsold tea, putting the East India Company in financial difficulties.
- unsold inventory
- unsold home
- unsold house
Everyday half a million airline seats were going unsold.
- Everyday half a million airline seats were going unsold.
- Stores have little need to order in more goods when they're already full of unsold merchandise, so China is faced with slumping demand both at home and abroad.
Examples
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Throughout the growing season, unsold vegetables are delivered to the local charitable food bank at the end of each week.
Academic text (2018) -
However, books sit on both real and digital shelves for years, going unsold due to poor covers.
Blog text (26) -
This is a report on the mass unsold properties in the metropolitan area.
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After you include fees and unsold inventory, they often take more than 50%.
Blog text (33) -
Prices drop the longer an item stays unsold, so check back.
Blog text (2) -
I asked a baker if I might help him load, in exchange for one of his unsold bread rolls.
Fiction book (1990) -
Jericho's great painting, the result of two years of work, remained unsold and failed to bring him the public success he craved.
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The counselor to freshman men explained that only 275 caps remained unsold.
Academic text (2013) -
Stores have little need to order in more goods when they're already full of unsold merchandise, so China is faced with slumping demand both at home and abroad.
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There were still 1,000 tickets unsold for the opening ceremony on Friday.
Synonyms
1
4.8
Not bought by anyone
Antonyms
Compounds
How Sold
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1.4
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
Unsold breaks into un- meaning 'not' and sold, the past form of sell, which means 'to give for money'. So, unsold simply means 'not sold', like items left after a sale.