Usually means: Exchange goods or services for money.
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We found 48 dictionaries that define the word sell:

General (28 matching dictionaries)
  1. sell: Merriam-Webster.com
  2. sell: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. sell: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. sell: Collins English Dictionary
  5. sell: Vocabulary.com
  6. Sell, sell: Wordnik
  7. sell: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. Sell, sell: Wiktionary
  9. sell: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. sell: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. sell: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. sell: Dictionary.com
  13. sell: Online Etymology Dictionary
  14. sell: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  15. SELL, Sell (professional wrestling), Sell: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  16. Sell: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  17. sell: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  18. sell: Rhymezone
  19. sell: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  20. sell: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  21. SELL: Stammtisch Beau Fleuve Acronyms
  22. Sell: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable (1898)
  23. sell: Free Dictionary
  24. sell: Mnemonic Dictionary
  25. sell: Dictionary/thesaurus
  26. sell: Wikimedia Commons US English Pronunciations

Business (9 matching dictionaries)
  1. MoneyGlossary.com (No longer online)
  2. sell: Law.com Dictionary
  3. Everybody's Legal Dictionary (No longer online)
  4. INVESTORWORDS (No longer online)
  5. Glossary of Legal Terms (No longer online)
  6. Sell: Investopedia
  7. sell: Legal dictionary
  8. Sell: Financial dictionary
  9. BusinessDictionary.com (No longer online)

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. sell: Encyclopedia

Medicine (1 matching dictionary)
  1. online medical dictionary (No longer online)

Miscellaneous (4 matching dictionaries)
  1. Sound-Alike Words (No longer online)
  2. SELL: Acronym Finder
  3. AbbreviationZ (No longer online)
  4. sell: Idioms

Religion (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Postmodern Bible Dictionary (No longer online)

Science (1 matching dictionary)
  1. SELL: Cytokines & Cells Online Pathfinder Encyclopaedia

Slang (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. sell, sell: Green’s Dictionary of Slang
  2. SELL: Urban Dictionary

Sports (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Sell: Poker Terms

(Note: See sellable as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
verb:  (transitive, ditransitive, intransitive) To transfer goods or provide services in exchange for money.
verb:  (ergative) To be sold.
verb:  (transitive) To promote a product or service.
verb:  (transitive) To promote a particular viewpoint.
verb:  (transitive) To betray for money or other things.
verb:  (transitive, slang) To trick, cheat, or manipulate someone.
verb:  (transitive, professional wrestling, slang) To pretend that an opponent's blows or maneuvers are causing legitimate injury; to act.
noun:  An act of selling; sale.
noun:  (figurative, by extension) The promotion of an idea for acceptance.
noun:  An easy task.
noun:  (colloquial, dated) An imposition, a cheat; a hoax; a disappointment; anything occasioning a loss of pride or dignity.
noun:  (obsolete) A seat or stool.
noun:  (archaic) A saddle.
noun:  (regional, obsolete) A rope (usually for tying up cattle, but can also mean any sort of rope).
noun:  A surname.

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