Sell-out

Definition

sell /sel/ v ( pt, pp sold /sǝƱld/) ၁။ ~ ( sth ) ( to sb ) ( at/for sth ) ေရာင္းသည္။ sell (sth) at a high price/a loss/a discount ❍ Is she likely to sell (the car)? ❍ sell furniture by auction ❍ I sold my car (to a friend) for £750. ❍ Will you sell me your camera? ၂။ (က) ေရာင္းသည္။ a shop selling fruit/clothes/electrical goods ❍ Do you sell stamps? (ခ) ေရာင္းသည္။ I sell insurance. ၃။ ~ (at/for sth) ေရာင္းရသည္။ စြံသည္။ It's a marvellous book, but will it sell? ❍ The new model car is selling well. ❍ The badges sell at 50p each. ❍ Their last record sold millions. ၄။ ေရာင္းေကာင္းသည္။ စြံသည္။ It is not price but quality that sells our shoes. ❍ Her name will help to sell the product. ၅။ ( infml ) ~ sth/sb/oneself (to sb) ေဈးကြက္တင္သည္။ အစြံထုတ္သည္။ the best way to sell people a new product ❍ You'll never sell ideas like that to the voters. ❍ You have to sell yourself (ie persuade people that you are the most suitable person) at a job interview. ၆။ ~ oneself (to sb) (မိမိ သိကၡာ၊ ပညာ စသည္ကို) ေရာင္းစားသည္။ Are artists who work in advertising selling themselves? n [sing] ( infml ) အလိမ္အညာ။ နားလွည့္ပါး႐ိုက္ျခင္း။ It's a real sell—the menu seems cheap but they charge extra for vegetables. See also HARD SELL ❏ be sold on sth/sb [ IDM ] ( infml ) စိတ္အားထက္သန္သည္။ ႀကိဳက္သည္။ I like the house but I'm not sold on the area. ❏ be sold out (of sth) [ IDM ] လက္က်န္မရိွေတာ့။ ေရာင္းရန္ မရိွေတာ့။ ကုန္ၿပီ။ The match was completely sold out. ❍ We're sold out of bread, I'm afraid. ❏ sell one's body [ IDM ] ( rhet ) ျပည့္တန္ဆာလုပ္သည္။ ❏ sell-by date n (ေဆး၊ စားဖြယ္တို႔တြင္ ကပ္ထားေလ့ရိွေသာ) ေနာက္ဆံုးထား၍ ေရာင္းရမည့္ရက္စြဲ။ This yoghurt is past its sell-by date. ❏ sell sb down the river [ IDM ] ( infml ) သစၥာေဖာက္သည္။ ❏ selling-point n (ဝယ္သူမ်ားအတြက္)မက္လံုး။ The hotel's private golf course is one of its strongest selling-points. ❏ selling price n ေရာင္းေဈး။ Compare COST PRICE ❏ sell sth off [ PHRV ] ေဈးေလွ်ာ့၍ အစြံထုတ္သည္။ sell off old stock. ❏ sell - off n အစိုးရရွယ္ယာမ်ား (သို႔) ဝန္ေဆာင္လုပ္ငန္းမ်ား ကို တစ္သီးပုဂၢလ (သို႔) ပုဂၢလိက ကုမၸဏီမ်ားသို႔ ေရာင္းခ်ျခင္း။ the electricity/water sell-off. ❏ sell out [ PHRV ] လက္က်န္မရိွျဖစ္သည္။ အားလံုးေရာင္းရ သည္။ The show has sold out (ie There are no tickets left). ❏ sell out (of sth) [ PHRV ] (ပစၥည္း)ကုန္သြားသည္။ We've sold out (of milk) but we'll be getting some more in later. ❏ sell out (to sb) [ PHRV ] မိမိယံုၾကည္ခ်က္ကို စြန္႔လႊတ္သည္၊ ေျပာင္းသည္။ She's sold out and left the party. ❏ sell (sth) out (to sb) [ PHRV ] မိမိဝင္ထားသည့္ အစုရွယ္ယာ ကို(အားလံုးျဖစ္ေစ၊ တခ်ဳိ႕တစ္ဝက္ျဖစ္ေစ) ထုတ္ေရာင္းသည္။ She has decided to sell out (her share of the company) and retire. ❏ sell sb out [ PHRV ] သစၥာေဖာက္သည္။ They sold us out by agreeing to work during the strike. ❏ sell-out n ၁။ လက္မွတ္တစ္ခုမက်န္ ေရာင္းရေသာ ပြဲ။ ႐ံုျပည့္ေရာင္းစြံေသာ ပြဲ။ Every concert they gave was a sell-out. ❍ a sell-out crowd/tour. ၂။ ( infml ) သစၥာေဖာက္ ျခင္း။ Radicals in the party attacked his policies as a sell-out to capitalism. ❏ sell sth/sb/oneself short [ IDM ] ၁။ အထင္ေသးသည္။ ေလွ်ာ့တြက္သည္။ Don't sell yourself short: your work is very good. ၂။ ေလွ်ာ့အမ္းသည္။ အေလးစသည္ခိုးသည္။ အျပည့္မေပး။ ၃။ ( commerce ) (ေဈးက်ဦးမည္ဟုႀကိဳတြက္ထား သည့္) ရွယ္ယာမ်ားကို မိမိလက္ဝယ္မရိွေသာ္လည္း ရိွသည့္အေနျဖင့္ ေရာင္းသည္။ (ယင္းသို႔ေရာင္းၿပီးေနာက္ က်ေဈးျဖင့္ဝယ္ၿပီး ျပန္ ေရာင္းျခင္းျဖင့္ အျမတ္ရသည္။ ) ❏ sell one's soul (to the devil) [ IDM ] (ေငြ၊ ေက်ာ္ၾကားမႈ စသည္အတြက္) ဘာမဆိုလုပ္သည္။ She'd sell her soul to get that job. ❏ sell (sth) up [ PHRV ] ေရာင္းထုတ္သည္။ ေရာင္းပစ္သည္။ They sold up and moved to the south of France.

Examples

1. They’ve already sold over two million copies of their record.
2. [sell something at a profit/loss] : I don’t think dealers sell these cars at much of a profit.
3. My uncle buys and sells antiques for a living.
4. [sell someone something] : I sold one customer five pairs of shoes yesterday.
5. Do you think they sell children’s books here?
6. Designer clothes don’t really sell much in the smaller towns.
7. [something sells well] : Her new book sold very well in the first six months.
8. Sex and violence have sold a lot of cinema tickets.
9. [sell something to someone] : I don’t think we could sell the idea to our partners.