(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.
Tobacconist
Definition:
(n.) A dealer in tobacco; also, a manufacturer of tobacco.
(n.) A smoker of tobacco.
Example Sentences:
(1) France’s tobacconists are protesting against plans to force cigarette companies to use plain, unbranded packaging by disabling traffic speed cameras.
(2) While the tobacconists have preferred direct action, tobacco manufacturers are taking the legal route, reporting the legislation to the European court of justice.
(3) James Yu, who runs the King of the Pack tobacconist in central Sydney, said the uniform packaging made it harder to stack his shelves "It used to take me an hour to unload a delivery, now it takes me four hours," Yu said.
(4) The cat was taken in by Yoichi Maeda, a local editor, who asked the tobacconist’s owner, Kaori Hasegawa, to look after her during the day in the hope that she would bring some luck to local businesses affected by the disaster.
(5) BFM TV showed a group of tobacconists wearing white masks on a night-time radar-hooding expedition.
(6) The confederation claims there are nearly 27,000 tobacconists in France, more than half of them operating as bars, employing a total of 100,000 people.
(7) In other parts of the country, furious tobacconists put plastic bags over traffic cameras with the slogan: “Getting rid of tobacconists will not reduce smoking.
(8) Luther Pendragon's Brussels office has also been working for the European Retailers and Tobacconists Association.
(9) French tobacconists dump four tonnes of carrots on street in cigarette protest Read more Nine years ago, France controversially banned smoking in enclosed public spaces , including bars and restaurants.
(10) He is especially eloquent on the latter’s performance as Abel Drugger, the easily tricked tobacconist in Ben Jonson’s The Alchemist.
(11) It may be the year of the monkey in Japan , but people from across the country are reportedly flocking to a tiny tobacconist north of Tokyo for an encounter with a cat that has ”lucky eyebrows”.
(12) Shops (except specialist tobacconists), shopping centres and markets.
(13) But yesterday René Le Pape, president of the tobacconists' confederation, said bars and cafes would need more than a year to prepare, and warned that the ban would destroy small country businesses.
(14) He drifted through dead-end jobs – stable boy, farm hand, errand boy, pawnbroker's clerk, leather worker, tobacconist and gents' outfitter's assistant – maintaining afterwards that the only one that gave him satisfaction was the tobacconist's kiosk in Piccadilly, where he bought American cigarettes from a US sergeant and sold them profitably to selected customers.
(15) After dumping the vegetables against the gates of the party headquarters at Rue de Solférino at 6.30am, the tobacconists marched to the health ministry en route to the Sénat to demand that senators throw out the law, which the government intends to introduce next year.. On Wednesday afternoon, French senators took out the clause requiring plain cigarette and tobacco packets.Instead, passed an amendment requiring health warnings to be made larger, in keeping with a European Union directive.
(16) Angry French tobacconists have dumped four tonnes of carrots outside the ruling Socialist party’s headquarters in Paris in protest at plans to force the introduction of plain cigarette packets.
(17) The Confédération des Buralistes – the tobacconists’ union – chose the carrot because it resembles the sign outside French shops selling cigarettes.