What does selling mean?

Definitions for selling
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Princeton's WordNet

  1. selling, merchandising, marketingnoun

    the exchange of goods for an agreed sum of money

Wiktionary

  1. sellingnoun

    Action of the verb to sell.

ChatGPT

  1. selling

    Selling refers to the act or process of exchanging a product, service, or asset for money. It involves promoting or advertising a product or service, attracting and convincing potential buyers, and completing a transaction where money is exchanged for the ownership or use of the product or service. It is a fundamental part of business operations and commerce.

Webster Dictionary

  1. Selling

    of Sell

Wikidata

  1. Selling

    Selling is a village and civil parish south of Faversham and west of Canterbury in Kent, England.

Editors Contribution

  1. sellingverb

    Verb form of the word sell.

    The selling price was confirmed.


    Submitted by MaryC on March 4, 2020  

Surnames Frequency by Census Records

  1. SELLING

    According to the U.S. Census Bureau, Selling is ranked #101247 in terms of the most common surnames in America.

    The Selling surname appeared 178 times in the 2010 census and if you were to sample 100,000 people in the United States, approximately 0 would have the surname Selling.

    92.7% or 165 total occurrences were White.
    4.4% or 8 total occurrences were of two or more races.

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British National Corpus

  1. Spoken Corpus Frequency

    Rank popularity for the word 'selling' in Spoken Corpus Frequency: #2554

  2. Written Corpus Frequency

    Rank popularity for the word 'selling' in Written Corpus Frequency: #1447

  3. Nouns Frequency

    Rank popularity for the word 'selling' in Nouns Frequency: #2641

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Numerology

  1. Chaldean Numerology

    The numerical value of selling in Chaldean Numerology is: 5

  2. Pythagorean Numerology

    The numerical value of selling in Pythagorean Numerology is: 6

Examples of selling in a Sentence

  1. Doug McMillon:

    It's clear to us that the status quo is unacceptable, congress and the administration should act. Given our decades of experience selling firearms, we are also offering to serve as a resource in the national debate on responsible gun sales.

  2. Michael Pedroni:

    The current U.S. short-selling framework has held up amid heavy volumes and is serving its purpose. Adding restrictions will only make the current problem worse.

  3. Andy Kahan:

    As you can see, this has kind of become an industry. Not just an industry for the criminals. But, for people who realize they can make money selling paper tags.

  4. Jonathan Miller:

    There aren't as many as you think, the banner year was 2014. In 2013 and 2014 I started noticing every couple of weeks there was a story that said,' this was the highest asking price in the country,' or' this was the highest in California.' In 2015 I started looking back and realized that many of those hadn't sold. It was the pocket listings, the ones that weren't splashed everywhere, that were selling.

  5. Jeffrey Gundlach:

    Things are shaky and feeling dangerous, i am not selling gold.

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