(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.
Shopkeeper
Definition:
(n.) A trader who sells goods in a shop, or by retail; -- in distinction from one who sells by wholesale.
Example Sentences:
(1) Everyone had something to say about the events, from professors to shopkeepers.
(2) Photograph: Peter Beaumont for the Guardian For his part the leader of Hadash, the veteran socialist party in Israel that emphasises Arab-Jewish cooperation, Odeh has now attracted a political star status most obvious on the stump in Lod on Wednesday in the repeated cries of “Ayman!” by shopkeepers and passersby keen to shake his hand or be photographed with him.
(3) "There were 85 others in my police cell, mostly young people," said the young shopkeeper held in police station No 14.
(4) "Some people pulled me out from the rubble," said shopkeeper Sharifuddin Aurfan, who was wounded.
(5) Shopkeepers said they were afraid to open after gunmen believed to be working for the Knights Templar cartel threw firebombs at several of the city's businesses and city hall over the weekend.
(6) The scale of the destruction in Birmingham, Manchester and Salford shocked morning commuters and prompted shopkeepers fearful of a repeat performance to board up premises at lunchtime.
(7) Small shopkeepers have called on the government to include them in plans to introduce a mandatory 5p charge on plastic carrier bags next year.
(8) Photograph: tom phillips for the Guardian “It’s not been good for us,” complained Wu Yuhua, a 42-year-old shopkeeper from Jiangxi province who was preparing to leave the city until the G20 roadshow had moved on.
(9) The tourists ambling down Ledra Street in the hot midday sun are a welcome sight – and not just for crisis-hit Cyprus's shopkeepers.
(10) Hundreds of shopkeepers and restaurant owners from Calais held a protest in Paris on 7 March to complain that they have suffered heavy losses as a result of the presence of migrants in the port.
(11) James Agate (1877‑1947) started out as a Manchester cotton merchant, moved to London as a shopkeeper, then rose to prominence as the most brilliant theatre critic of his day.
(12) She rather loved being a shopkeeper, perhaps because it gave her a rest from writing.
(13) It’s been a long time since I saw him last.” The shopkeeper, 79, said no one had been in the barbershop since at least Tuesday and it had now closed.
(14) "A toxic mix of gold, greed and alcohol has resulted in a spate of brutal murders in the interior," the newspaper reported, cataloguing killings involving miners, jewellers and shopkeepers working at the gold mines.
(15) Shopkeepers have placed oil drums on the pavement to try to put some distance between themselves and any blast.
(16) And, as every shopkeeper will tell you, a huge sector of our economy depends on this.
(17) Fellow shopkeepers, she said, woke up yesterday to find their stock bobbing about in high waters.
(18) The UK is just as much a nation of shopkeepers as a vanguard of cutting-edge capitalism."
(19) Anna, a shopkeeper whose store was hit by a shell on Monday, said she did not believe the ceasefire would last.
(20) From the largest supermarkets to the most modest corner store or market stall, shopkeepers will be compelled to charge customers at least 5p for the convenience of taking their goods home in a disposable bag.