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sell-off
[ sel-awf, -of ]
noun
- Stock Exchange. a sudden and marked decline in stock or bond prices resulting from widespread selling.
- an act or instance of liquidating assets or subsidiaries, as by divestiture.
sell off
verb
- tr, adverb to sell (remaining or unprofitable items), esp at low prices
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Word History and Origins
Origin of sell-off1
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Idioms and Phrases
Get rid of by selling, often at reduced prices. For example, The jeweler was eager to sell off the last of the diamond rings . [c. 1700] Also see sell out , def. 1.Discover More
Example Sentences
Still, this feverish sell-off appears to go a step beyond fundamentals in the tech sphere.
Only in the midst of a sell-off tinged by group-think could these numbers be made to be bad.
This sell-off speaks to the continuing anxiety that a world not led by the United States and Europe and Japan is a world adrift.
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