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SELL OUT
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I. (verb)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Abandon one's principles for expedience or financial gain
Classified under:
Verbs of thinking, judging, analyzing, doubting
Hypernyms (to "sell out" is one way to...):
abandon; give up (stop maintaining or insisting on; of ideas or claims)
Sentence frame:
Somebody ----s
Derivation:
sellout (a betrayal of one's principles principles, country, cause, etc.)
sellout (someone who has sold out)
Sense 2
Meaning:
Sell or get rid of all one's merchandise
Synonyms:
Classified under:
Verbs of buying, selling, owning
Hypernyms (to "sell out" is one way to...):
cast aside; cast away; cast out; chuck out; discard; dispose; fling; put away; throw away; throw out; toss; toss away; toss out (throw or cast away)
"Sell out" entails doing...:
sell (exchange or deliver for money or its equivalent)
Domain category:
commerce; commercialism; mercantilism (transactions (sales and purchases) having the objective of supplying commodities (goods and services))
Sentence frames:
Somebody ----s
Somebody ----s something
Derivation:
sellout (the selling of an entire stock of something)
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