(v. t.) To exceed in amount of sales; to sell more than.
(v. t.) To exceed in the price of selling; to fetch more than; to exceed in value.
Example Sentences:
(1) IDC has revised its forecast for the number of tablets that will be sold in 2013 up from 172.4m to 190.9m - suggesting that it thinks tablets will outsell laptops this year.
(2) Now it’s outselling the winner, Richard Flanagan’s The Narrow Road to the Deep North .
(3) US hip-hop giants such as Kanye and Drake will tell anyone who’ll listen about their love for the genre (the former famously performing at the 2015 BRITs with a crew of UK grime rappers , including Stormzy); Skepta, now the scene’s biggest star, was outselling both Beyoncé and Drake in the midweek charts with his new album Konnichiwa .
(4) The iPad, with 10.9m units and $4.5bn in revenues in the latest quarter, still outsells it easily.
(5) The research firm also said tablets will outsell traditional PCs in the last three months of the year.
(6) Brilliant, I say, next time you'll return as a proper pop star and outsell the world?
(7) Right now, five of the 10 bestselling books on amazon.co.uk are food books, with Nigellissima outselling Fifty Shades of Grey .
(8) This moment, where tablets outsell PCs, also marks another watershed: the end of the Windows monopoly on computing.
(9) John Leahy, chief operating officer for Airbus, retorted: "Our A350 XWB has been outselling the 787 by better than two to one over the past five years.
(10) Roast Chicken and Other Stories is the bestselling book on amazon.co.uk, outselling the latest Harry Potter.
(11) Over the past six years alone we have launched a sister title that now outsells The Guardian, grown independent.co.uk to nearly 70 million global users a month, and won countless awards for our unique contribution to news and culture, with values of bravery, compassion, scepticism and wit to the fore.
(12) For the first time, bicycles appear to be outselling cars.
(13) One stallholder says: "It outsells all other styles.
(14) The album sold 94,000 copies this week, according to the Official Chart Company , outselling the number two album from Bon Jovi two to one.
(15) Windows Phone has greater than 10 percent share in nine markets, according to Microsoft Windows Phone is outselling BlackBerry in 34 markets — again, according to Microsoft.
(16) But smartphones already far outsell consoles, and less complex games like Angry Birds, Candy Crush and Dots are booming.
(17) Hachette Filipacchi's Red, edited by former Cosmopolitan editor Sam Baker, achieved a record circulation of 226,502, up 3.6% on the first half – but up less than 1% on the year to outsell Vogue and Harper's Bazaar.
(18) She says she's proud that this year's shortlist is outselling those of previous years.
(19) In total, Android is outselling all other smartphone platforms – though probably not because eager would-be programmers and tinkerers are taking it up, but because carriers can offer them cheaply.
(20) Glamour fell a painful 6.5% year on year, although it still comfortably outsells NatMags' Cosmopolitan by about 90,000.
Oversell
Definition:
(v. t.) To sell for a higher price than; to exceed in selling price.
(v. t.) To sell beyond means of delivery.
Example Sentences:
(1) The discussion then turns to the problem of the overselling of rehabilitation and the observation that despite the powerful dependency needs and limited tolerance for stress of the mentally disabled, when attention is finally turned to them, neglect often gives way to unrealistic expectations of rehabilitation.
(2) It has been argued that while standardization has a number of advantages, we must be careful not to discourage the development of new procedures nor to oversell current assessment procedures.
(3) To compete, organisations oversell the vulnerability of their beneficiaries while conflating one-off interventions with transforming a life.
(4) Fiorina, standing beside former and serving governors, appeared unfazed by her lack of experience in politics and was clearly unafraid of overselling herself.
(5) It's clear that there has been an enormous overselling of numerous medical interventions – not just in mental health – with overdiagnosis and overtreatment led by an industry keen to get doctors to diagnose as many people as possible.
(6) It was regarded with suspicion by many yes voters who believed that the no campaign – labelled Project Fear – was overselling the impact on jobs should Scotland choose to become independent.
(7) Still, on this one occasion when writers and broadcasters and college sports fanatics were talking about witnessing one of the greatest endings they had ever seen in sports, period, they may not have been overselling the end to the 2013 Iron Bowl, the rivalry game between the University of Alabama Crimson Tide and Auburn University Tigers.
(8) The paradox can be explained by the high cost of medical care, the overselling of medicine's capabilities, the expectation that the physician will be both ultrascientific and as emphathic as yesterday's doctor, and little recognition that the curing of one illness in the elderly exposes this group to other disease.
(9) Apart from the choice of judges, the PR machine going way beyond its remit by overselling a priapic coke-user whom they then had to sack, being deserted by Simon Cowell and then, after various related kerfuffles, turned down by Cheryl Cole, and beaten demeaningly and unaccountably in the ratings by Strictly Come Dancing , and not actually having quite enough people who could … sing … the song choices were the worse.
(10) Put all this together, and a picture emerges of academics overselling a simplistic argument that is conducive to ministers' yen for austerity and so gets further simplified for political purposes.
(11) If there's overselling going on, how can retailers and consumers work together to bring that under control?"
(12) We became fixated on output, overselling our impact to supporters.