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Princeton's WordNet

  1. sell offverb

    get rid of by selling, usually at reduced prices

    "The store sold off the surplus merchandise"

Wiktionary

  1. sell offverb

    To sell at low cost, in order to sell it quickly.

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  1. sell off

    Sell off refers to the process of rapidly selling assets, such as stocks, bonds, or property, often all at once, typically to pay off debts, improve liquidity, or because of market concerns. It can cause prices to fall due to the sudden increase in supply. This term is commonly used in financial and investment sectors.

Editors Contribution

  1. sell off

    regular (when you do sales no making profits or necessity)

    I SOLD OFF TODAY ALL MY MERCHADISE IN ORDER TO GET CASH


    Submitted by jjvv16789 on March 19, 2020  

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Numerology

  1. Chaldean Numerology

    The numerical value of sell off in Chaldean Numerology is: 1

  2. Pythagorean Numerology

    The numerical value of sell off in Pythagorean Numerology is: 3

Examples of sell off in a Sentence

  1. Michigan Congressman Dan Kildee:

    This case shows that you can't treat cities the way you treat some corporation that you might just sort of sell off.

  2. Chris Weston:

    It's a good news day, much relief will be felt from a number of retail investors who have been confused as to the very crux of the sell-off in global equity markets.

  3. Lorne Baring:

    The DAX was punished by the scandal at Volkswagen, and it seemed overly sold during the global sell-off in the summer. But those moves were overdone.

  4. Jerome Booth:

    (There will be) sell-off in the euro as talk of other exit referenda builds, this sell-off will be more profound and long-lasting and will be not just against the dollar and yen but also against the pound. It will also raise fears of significant loss of values for holders of Euro-zone government bonds.

  5. John Saucer:

    The scope of today's sell-off is unequivocally a speculative washout.


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