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selling

[ sel-ing ]

adjective

  1. of or relating to a sale or sales: sales:

    the selling price of oranges.

  2. engaged in selling:

    two selling offices in New York.

  3. readily saleable; in strong demand (often used in combination):

    This is our fastest-selling model.



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  • non·selling adjective

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Word History and Origins

Origin of selling1

First recorded in 1765–75; sell 1 + -ing 2

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Example Sentences

There is just no way of selling this picture with an innocent defense like, “she just asked for a snap.”

Eventually, she did—more or less—reinventing herself as Nicki Minaj and becoming a platinum-selling hip-hop superstar.

He was not selling “loosies” that day, no cigarettes were found on his person, and thus there was no probable cause in play.

Even the legendary 1980s televisions show Dallas is back on the air, selling its twenty-first century brand of Texas bravado.

The process of co-opting black music and selling it back to the adoring public in whiteface is as American as apple pie.

At this period it brought enormous prices, the finest selling at from fifteen to eighteen shillings per pound.

To learn this, he went on the road himself appointing agents and selling to bookstores.

It means enough not to satisfy them, and to leave the selling price of the things made at the point of profit.

I have no means of paying them except by selling my estate, and therefore it must go.

I shall be coming to you next and saying that I'm going to be put in prison for selling secret documents to a foreign country.

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