What's the difference between regrate and resell?

Regrate


Definition:

  • (v. t.) To remove the outer surface of, as of an old hewn stone, so as to give it a fresh appearance.
  • (v. t.) To offend; to shock.
  • (v. t.) To buy in large quantities, as corn, provisions, etc., at a market or fair, with the intention of selling the same again, in or near the same place, at a higher price, -- a practice which was formerly treated as a public offense.

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Resell


Definition:

  • (v. t.) To sell again; to sell what has been bought or sold; to retail.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Over 17 million customers can deposit, withdraw and transfer money, pay bills, buy airtime from a network of agents that includes airtime resellers and retail outlets.
  • (2) Almost two years after the triple meltdown at Fukushima Daiichi power plant sent shockwaves around the world, Japan's government is attempting to resell the nuclear dream to a traumatised public.
  • (3) I wrote to Viagogo and StubHub to ask them to stop reselling my tickets at inflated rates, and they replied with standard emails.
  • (4) Although these limited editions often resell for hundreds of pounds, Third Man sold them on a first-come, first-served basis through its Nashville headquarters, "pop-up shops" and a paid members' service, the Vault .
  • (5) When we maintain and resell,” says co-founder Janet Gunter, “we create value locally in an otherwise throwaway economy where things are manufactured far away.
  • (6) The prices BT charges rivals like BSkyB and TalkTalk to resell superfast internet connections via its fibre network are almost double those for basic broadband over its old copper telephone wires.
  • (7) The mining company official was reported to have said that "well-connected elites are generating millions of dollars in personal income by hiring teams of diggers to hand-extract diamonds" from Chiadzwa, before reselling the stones to shady foreign buyers.
  • (8) Those who scalped the tickets on the street or, say, found them on craigslist, will almost definitely lose their investment, unless they can track down the reseller and convince them to provide a refund.
  • (9) All three deals were subsequently restructured, with one reseller paid $400,000 in compensation fees.
  • (10) Let me quote from someone who thinks that those who invest in content should get a better deal: "Asking cable companies and other distribution partners to pay a small portion of the profits they make by reselling broadcast channels, the most-watched channels on their systems, will help ensure the health of the over-the-air industry in America."
  • (11) Overseas resellers are allowed to charge a 20% premium on the face value of the tickets under IOC rules, but not on tickets meant for sponsors.
  • (12) "But until the government makes it illegal to resell tickets this is going to go on and on."
  • (13) "There are very stringent rules about how we recognise revenues with resellers," he said.
  • (14) Kraft, Eli Lilly and KMPG were named as end users of Autonomy software in multimillion-dollar deals with resellers, sales which helped boost Autonomy's quarterly revenues.
  • (15) BlackBerry will effectively become a reseller of its own phones.
  • (16) Limited device inventory at Apple resellers are often considered the first indicator of replacement products or updates waiting in the wings.
  • (17) The contract would name an end user, such as a bank or government agency, to whom the reseller intended to sell the software.
  • (18) "The attack has been sent to a variety of staff of our reseller," Theo Hnarakis, Melbourne IT's chief executive told Australian AP.
  • (19) For all of the women addicted to heroin, reselling drugs and prostitution were the usual means of support.
  • (20) At a filling station in the choked commercial capital, Lagos, retired secretary Muyiwa gestured at scuffles between motorists who paid bribes to jump the queue and black marketeers filling plastic bottles to resell the fuel.

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