(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.
Sell
Definition:
(n.) Self.
(n.) A sill.
(n.) A cell; a house.
(n.) A saddle for a horse.
(n.) A throne or lofty seat.
(v. t.) To transfer to another for an equivalent; to give up for a valuable consideration; to dispose of in return for something, especially for money.
(v. t.) To make a matter of bargain and sale of; to accept a price or reward for, as for a breach of duty, trust, or the like; to betray.
(v. t.) To impose upon; to trick; to deceive; to make a fool of; to cheat.
(v. i.) To practice selling commodities.
(v. i.) To be sold; as, corn sells at a good price.
(n.) An imposition; a cheat; a hoax.
Example Sentences:
(1) Several selling VCs were also Google investors; one sat on Google's board.
(2) No one has jobs,” said Annie, 45, who runs a street stall selling fried chicken and rice in the Matongi neighbourhood.
(3) A failure to reach a solution would potentially leave 200,000 homes without affordable cover, leaving owners unable to sell their properties and potentially exposing them to financial hardship.
(4) If Clegg's concerns do broadly accord with Cameron's, how will the PM sell such a big U-turn to his increasingly anti-Clegg backbenchers?
(5) After two placings of shares with institutional investors which began two years ago, the government has been selling shares by “dribbling” them into the market.
(6) Meanwhile, Brighton rock duo Royal Blood top this week's album chart with their self-titled album, scoring the UK's fastest selling British rock debut in three years.
(7) The group set aside £3.2bn to cover PPI mis-selling in 2011.
(8) Even so, the release of the first-half figures could help clear the way for the chancellor, George Osborne, to start selling off the taxpayer’s 79% stake in the bank, a legacy of the institution’s 2008 bailout.
(9) It’s not like there’s a simple answer.” Vassilopoulos said: “The media is all about entertainment.” “I don’t think they sell too many papers or get too many advertisements because of their coverage of income inequality,” said Calvert.
(10) Giving voice to that sentiment the mass-selling daily newspaper Ta Nea dedicated its front-page editorial to what it hoped would soon be the group's demise, describing Alexopoulos' desertion as a "positive development".
(11) And we will sell those assets that can be managed better by the private sector.
(12) At the same time, however, he has backed the quality of the technology that the company is developing and resisted pressure to sell off underperforming businesses.
(13) In Wednesday’s budget speech , George Osborne acknowledged there had been a big rise in overseas suppliers storing goods in Britain and selling them online without paying VAT.
(14) Apple could quite possibly afford to promise to pay out 80% of its streaming iTunes income, especially if such a service helped it sell more iPhones and iPads, where the margins are bigger.
(15) It acts as a one-stop shop bringing together credit unions and other organisations, such as Five Lamps , a charity providing loans, and white-goods providers willing to sell products with low-interest repayments.
(16) For an industry built on selling ersatz rebellion to teenagers, finding the moral high ground was always going to be tricky.
(17) The newspaper is the brainchild of Jaime Villalobos, who saw homeless people selling The Big Issue while he was studying natural resource management in Newcastle.
(18) She knew that Ford needed parts for the best-selling truck in America, and she knew how to make them.
(19) Japan needs to sell whale meat at a competitive price, similar to that of pork or chicken, and to do that it needs to increase its annual catch."
(20) Rawlins bought a stake in Stoke City in 2000, where he'd been a season ticket-holder from the age of five, after selling off his IT consultancy company and joined the board.