sell

Meaning

Verb

1. To transfer goods or provide services in exchange for money.
2. To be sold.
3. To promote a product or service.
4. To promote a particular viewpoint.
5. To betray for money or other things.
6. (slang) To trick, cheat, or manipulate someone.
7. (slang) To pretend that an opponent's blows or maneuvers are causing legitimate injury; to act.
8. (slang) To throw under the bus; to let down one's own team in an endeavour, especially in a sport or a game.

Noun

1. An act of selling; sale.
2. The promotion of an idea for acceptance.
3. An easy task.
4. (colloquial) An imposition, a cheat; a hoax; a disappointment; anything occasioning a loss of pride or dignity.

Noun

1. (obsolete) A seat or stool.
2. A saddle.

Noun

A rope (usually for tying up cattle, but can also mean any sort of rope).

Pronounced as (IPA)

/sɛl/

Etymology

From Middle English sellen, from Old English sellan (“give; give up for money”), from Proto-West Germanic *salljan, from Proto-Germanic *saljaną, from Proto-Indo-European *selh₁-. Compare Danish sælge, Swedish sälja, Icelandic selja.