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to resell

to resell

22 2.3
To give something to another person for money after you bought it
  • verb
  • /ˌriːˈsɛl/
translation icon : revender
  • After fixing the old phones, she decided to resell them online.
  • resell electricity

This is the same cycle on which student textbooks are resold to the coop.

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Examples

  • We will buy them ourselves and resell them on the market.

  • - Just buy them and then resell them -

  • Originally, we were gonna fix it up, try to resell it.

  • We buy it with the money and then we resell it.

  • Once the goods arrive Sam will resell them

  • But with this one, when you get to California, you could resell, make a profit.

  • And finally, people love to use Facebook to resell their stuff, but there are dangers to be aware of.

  • Moore: Peter deals exclusively with clients who buy up foreclosed homes and then resell them at a profit.

  • And because ticket sales have moved online, scalpers have been able to buy up tickets in a way they couldn't in the past to resell them at a premium to music fans.

  • Ciano notes that some of the center's larger customers are reselling the compost for $22 per cubic yard.

    Academic text (1997)

How Specialized

to remarket
  • Specialized
5.9
dealer
227 2.7
to resell
22 2.3
to sell
1.0

Surface Forms

resell infinitive
reselling present participle
resells third person singular
resold past
resold past participle

Morphology

resell = sell (transparent) = re + sell

This is a standard and highly productive use of 're-' meaning 'again' attached to 'sell'.

Etymology

The word resell combines the prefix re- meaning 'again' and sell meaning 'to sell', so it literally means to 'sell again'. Think of buying a phone and then selling it online — that is reselling.