| Main Entry: | |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | the act of selling |
| Synonyms: | auction, auctioning, bartering, merchandising, sale, trading, transacting, transfer, transferring, vending |
| Antonyms: | acquiring, buying, purchasing |
| Main Entry: | sell |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | exchange an object for money |
| Synonyms: | advertise, auction, bargain, barter, be in business, boost, clinch the deal, close, close the deal, contract, deal in, dispose, drum, dump, exchange, handle, hawk, hustle, market, merchandise, move, peddle, persuade, pitch, plug, puff, push, put across, put up for sale, retail, retain, snow, soft sell, soft soap, spiel*, stock, sweet talk, trade, traffic, unload, vend, wholesale |
| Notes: | a cell is a small compartment or the basic structural and functional unit of all organisms, while sell means to exchange or deliver for money or its equivalent |
| Antonyms: | buy |
| Main Entry: | sell/sell out |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | betray |
| Synonyms: | beguile, break faith, bunk, cross, deceive, deliver up, delude, disappoint, double-cross, fail, four-flush, give away, give up, mislead, play false, rat on, sell down the river, stab in the back, surrender, take in, violate |
| Antonyms: | guard, protect |
| Main Entry: | business |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | commerce, trade |
| Synonyms: | affairs, bargaining, barter, buying and selling, capital and labor, commercialism, contracts, deal, dealings, exchange, free enterprise, game, industrialism, industry, manufacturing, market, merchandising, production and distribution, racket, sales, selling, trading, traffic, transaction, undertaking |
| Notes: | the industry is the movie business and the business is the television industry |
| Main Entry: | disposal |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | parting with or throwing something away |
| Synonyms: | auctioning, bartering, chucking, clearance, conveyance, demolishing, demolition, destroying, destruction, discarding, dispatching, dispensation, disposition, dumping, ejection, jettison, jettisoning, junking, relegation, relinquishment, removal, riddance, sacrifice, sale, scrapping, selling, trading, transfer, transference, vending |
| Antonyms: | hold, keeping, retention |
| Main Entry: | marketable |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | easily sold; in demand |
| Synonyms: | bankable, commercial, fit, for sale, good, hot*, merchandisable, merchantable, profitable, salable, sellable, selling, sought after, sound, trafficable, vendible, wanted |
| Antonyms: | unmarketable |
| Main Entry: | popular |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | well-known, favorite |
| Synonyms: | accepted, approved, attractive, beloved, caught on, celebrated, crowd-pleasing, faddish, famous, fashionable, favored, in, in demand, in favor, in the mainstream, in vogue, leading, likable, liked, lovable, noted, notorious, now*, okay*, pleasing, praised, preferred, prevailing, prominent, promoted, right stuff, run-after, selling, social, societal, sought, sought-after, stylish, suitable, the rage, thing*, trendy, well-liked, well-received |
| Antonyms: | disliked, unknown, unpopular |
| Main Entry: | sale |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | exchange of object for money |
| Synonyms: | auction, barter, business, buying, clearance, closeout, commerce, consuming, deal, demand, disposal, dumping, enterprise, marketing, negotiation, purchase, purchasing, reduction, selling, trade, transaction, unloading, vending, vendition |
| Main Entry: | transaction |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | business dealing; undertaking |
| Synonyms: | act, action, activity, affair, agreement, bargain, bond, business, buying, compact, contract, convention, coup, covenant, deal, deed, disposal, doings, enterprise, event, execution, goings-on, happening, intercourse, matter, negotiation, occurrence, pact, performance, play, proceeding, purchase, purchasing, sale, selling, step |
| Antonyms: | denial, refusal, rejection |