I. verb
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
a selling point (= a quality or feature that makes people want to buy something )
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The house's main selling point is its beautiful garden.
buy/sell (a) property
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Buying a property is a complicated business.
hard sell
pyramid selling
sell a house
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We decided to sell the house and move back to Seattle.
sell insurance
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The company sells insurance alongside its electrical products.
sell sb into slavery (= sell someone as a slave )
sell shares
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This isn’t a good time to sell shares.
selling point
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Small classes are a selling point for private schools.
selling price
selling...wares
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craftspeople selling their wares
soft sell
sold at a premium
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Top quality cigars are being sold at a premium .
sold for scrap
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The equipment was sold for scrap .
sold on the open market
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The painting would fetch millions of dollars if it was sold on the open market .
sold out
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The group will play three sold-out shows at Wembley Stadium.
tough sell (= something that is difficult to persuade someone about )
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Gage predicted the president’s proposal would be a tough sell before Congress.
work/be sold for a pittance
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The crop was sold for a pittance.
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADVERB
off
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The Government have spent hundreds of thousands of pounds on imaginative advertising for selling off the country's nationalised industries.
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He purchased Western Union through a bankruptcycourt reorganization, selling off its well-known money-transfer business.
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But the information technology division is to be sold off .
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These are companies whose total stock value is below what the company could get if it simply sold off its assets.
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Who should the Minister sell off the subsidiaries?
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Carolco filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection in November and now is selling off its assets.
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This takes much of the uncertainty of house buying and selling off the relocated employee's shoulders.
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Selman has sold off two-thirds of his herd so far.
out
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The tactic plays to a public perception of Washington as a place that has sold out ordinary citizens.
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Still others sold out to larger companies.
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That was after I'd sold out and sent Julia to ... overseas.
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Advance tickets are $ 10 per person and $ 25 per couple, and sell out every year.
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Tickets for the concert, priced between £15 and £20, were sold out within days of being made available last Thursday.
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When he published a small booklet last year offering advice on choosing a last name, it sold out immediately.
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Minority voices on both sides will complain and accuse their governments of selling out .
■ NOUN
asset
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It is of course difficult to appraise peoples' motives for buying or selling derivative assets , so mere observation is insufficient.
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Carolco filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection in November and now is selling off its assets .
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How many hungry people might have been fed when he sold his material assets ?
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To grow, they slashed, re-engineered, and bought and sold assets .
business
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A friend of mines and me got us into business selling something.
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These old shops are still in business today, selling second-hand clothes and materials.
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Honesty, decency, good will have no place in this business of selling or murdering an image.
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The possibility that parts of the business could be sold off as a going concern should not be overlooked.
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This is dismaying to businesses who want to sell things.
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He wanted to build a big business selling running shoes.
car
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Mrs. Hamblin would have been precluded from denying the trader's authority to sell the car .
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Last year, Mazda took another step when it decided to sell Anfini channel cars through its Eunos dealerships.
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Voice over Anyone considering selling counterfeit goods at car boot sales could face two years in prison or unlimited fines.
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Infiniti sold 3, 494 cars in December, up 3. 5 % from a year earlier.
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But that law can't be used to stop people selling heaters at car boot sales.
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Only 21 black-owned dealerships sold foreign cars in the United States last year, VadenWilliams said.
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We decided that we would quietly sell the cars when possible and then wait.
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He made a successful transition from selling religion to selling cars .
company
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Members of Dorrance's extended family have indeed disagreed in public over whether or not the company should be sold .
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Fidelity often clears out entire investments in companies when it starts selling , he said.
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Cable companies stopped selling air time.
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The company will sell about 60 billion lire to the public by the end of January, say investment bankers.
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What happens if a company is sold to one private sector owner but is transferred to another within a year?
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The company sells its batteries mainly through electronics stores but is expanding to grocery shops and kiosks.
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Many companies will process and sell information, which is not confined by borders.
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Because what the company is selling is not its browser, but security.
copy
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By 1985, that volume had sold a hundred thousand copies in paper and another hundred thousand in hardback.
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In the mid-1970s it was selling around thirty thousand copies compared with the Times's sixty thousand.
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Then it ended up selling 500, 000 copies .
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By last week Atwood's novel had sold 1,069 copies .
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So far, Microsoft has sold about 12 million copies of Windows 95.
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The Daily Mail sold well over 200,000 copies daily in its first years and reached half-a-million sales after three years.
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Not until Walden sold two thousand copies , five years later, could Thoreau point to any audience at all.
goods
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Part of the licence will be an undertaking by the purchaser not to sell goods covered by an invention.
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This practice is particularly damaging to Third World countries trying to sell their goods .
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Experience in selling goods is certainly a plus.
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The profits of a manufacturing company are achieved by selling the goods it makes at a price in excess of its costs.
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They sell a variety of goods on a self-service basis.
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Industry has continually wanted devaluation to sell goods and because of this short-sighted attitude, what now do we make and sell?
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For the consent to be operative it must be such as to clothe the agent with with apparent authority to sell the goods .
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If the seller was only able to sell the goods elsewhere for £1,800, then the seller must refund £800.
home
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The couple, in their mid-70s, lost their life savings of £65,000 and had to sell their home .
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Homeowners who want to sell their homes without a real estate agent can now advertise their residential properties free on the Internet.
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He would come back and find the heavy mob were selling Tombstone as holiday homes .
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He is not, however, selling his old motor home .
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The actress says she must sell her home to pay.
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A similar trend is also developing whereby parents sell their home when their children have established an independent existence.
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Higgs and Hill sold 500 homes in 1988, but volumes dropped by 35 percent in the first half of 1989.
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Drops in income forced some Gypsies to sell their homes .
house
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Why not, dear, sell the house and come with Oreste to us?
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Still unsuccessful, they built and sold houses .
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They hope to sell the house as soon as possible but did not think it would go to a Vic Reeves fan.
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The idea came to her during rehabilitation, and to help fund it, she sold her house in Utah.
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If you're selling your house , try not to show people around on your own.
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Your father and I are selling the house as soon as you two leave for college.
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Whether they will be able to sell the houses at the end of it, is another matter.
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The owner selling the house knew.
land
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We can not sell the lives of men and animals: therefore we can not sell this land .
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Others were more conveniently sited for them but inconveniently for the Company, as a condition of selling land for the railway.
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Or maybe just sell the land for condos.
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The plan also says republics should continue their efforts to sell land to peasants.
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The freeholder may of course sell the land or property subject to the leaseholder's interest being maintained.
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If you have planning permission it's a hell of a lot easier to sell land .
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Using the techniques of forum theatre, the class try to persuade the old man to sell his house and land .
market
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Fisher also argues that, even if you know for sure that a bear market will occur, selling is dumb.
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They piled into the car and headed off to the local market to sell the shot glasses and recoup cash.
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The government always has the ability to step into the market to buy or sell its own bonds.
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It turned out to be the food market , where they sold swollen watermelons and aubergines and strange shaped fruits.
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Boys chewed and smoked opium in the small open-air market , sold cucumbers and onions, blue eggs and small tomatoes.
million
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The net assets of the businesses being sold total £0.2 million .
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It has sold more than 2 million copies.
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This year alone, he has produced three albums and five singles that have each sold more than a million copies.
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In November, the two North Carolina power companies sold $ 150 million in insured bonds.
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Traders speculated the company might sell more than 40 million shares in Cepa.
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New York State plans to sell $ 115 million in bonds this month and $ 140 million in commercial paper in March.
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I want to say to you, if you can sell one Kirby, you can sell a million !
percent
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Melinda says she can sell her services 40 percent cheaper than when she had a showroom.
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Euro Disney claims that one of its tour operators has sold 70 percent of its first three months of Euro Disney allocations.
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Mr Holmes a Court is thought to have taken advantage of the share's rapid progress, selling his 2 percent stake.
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Supermarkets may be as surprised as anyone to find themselves selling no more than 25 percent of national production by 1997.
price
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But it's not so brilliant for any shareholders who sold at the float price .
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The shares were sold at prices between $ 38. 45 and $ 40. 13 apiece.
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Here items in short supply are sold at inflated prices - but still generally lower than on the black market.
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If a smaller amount had been added, it would have sold at an intermediate price .
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Very expensive, it sells abroad for enormous prices .
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Sales agents acting on behalf of manufacturers, are vigilant in preventing retailers from selling at lower prices by threatening to cut future supplies.
product
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Since July the bureaucrats of the foreign-trade monopoly who knew how to sell its products abroad have been sacked.
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He had created an overhead that was impossible to make work and still sell the product at a competitive price.
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The decision whether or not to sell a product will depend on which ones make a positive contribution.
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Our distributors worked hard to sell our products .
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The selling and the product design were relaunched time and again.
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On the surface, it looks like just another chain of huge stores selling low-cost products that require purchaser assembly.
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As far as I know, no one has used an ad which is actively involved in selling a product in quite this way.
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When Stride Rite was earning $ 100 million pretax, it was doing it by selling product that has since been abandoned.
profit
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The recession has cut the number of Thames's commercial customers and has virtually killed off profits from selling redundant properties.
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Very few firms can turn a profit by selling just once and then scurrying out of town.
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Life insurers used to be able to show any profit from selling a bond in the year in which they traded it.
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I can get more profit selling drink downstairs.
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Until now they have made a tidy profit from selling re-issued pop hits from the fifties, sixties and seventies.
property
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In the meantime, an owner who wishes to move and sell his property has to wrestle with the problem of blight.
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Several years ago, he said he was arrested for cutting and selling timber on state property .
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To keep the budget deficit down, the government proposed to sell off shares and property valued at around 1,000 million kroner.
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Did you know that Fiske was involved with the company that sold Whitewater property for Doogle?
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They gave away small parcels, and even sanctioned the right to buy and sell property in the 1993 constitution.
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The church sold the property to Christopher and Marie Maier in 1986.
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The freeholder may of course sell the land or property subject to the leaseholder's interest being maintained.
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When the Maiers sold the property to the Pimentels, they signed a statement saying there were no significant easements.
service
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Households also sell their labour services to firms in return for the payment of income.
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E and Edison produce three-quarters of the power sold in their service territories.
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Site certificates are for companies wanting to sell goods and services over the World Wide Web.
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Over the years, they built a network of local dealerships and warehouses to sell equipment and provide service and repairs.
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You could sell your services to whichever temporary group of people needed to buy your skills at that point in time.
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Compliance Coach sells Web-based services to the banks, stockbrokers and myriad other companies subject to the law's requirements.
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The current thinking is to sell off freight services first.
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Raised in Chicago, Don sold construction services and transferred frequently.
shop
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Busy tourist shops sell quality leather goods, carpets and strikingly cheap cotton goods.
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Just sick over the prices in shops selling the 1960s furniture you finally convinced your parents to throw out?
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The book has now appeared in the shops and is selling well.
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The shops in Brookline that sell fresh kosher chickens are closed on Saturday.
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But a shop selling only summer-weight clothes in November looked mildly ridiculous.
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One spring Conran went on a tour of sixty shops which sold his furniture.
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A few motorcycle shops occasionally sell used ones.
soul
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A whole week in Paris at Easter seemed to her something for which she would willingly have sold her soul .
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She was accused of being a Salem witch for selling her soul to the devil at the strawberry banks.
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Bertinotti accuses Cossutta of selling his political soul .
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The fact that we would literally sell our soul to Continental Airlines.
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Faustus wilfully ends himself; he sells his soul to the devil.
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If he were mine, I would rather sell my soul .
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Timothy was agonising over her, when Honor West would have sold her soul for a single kiss from him.
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He doesn't accuse us of selling our souls .
ticket
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They also help Milan to sell tickets .
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It also opened a concierge desk selling tickets to area events and hired a tour coordinator fluent in five languages.
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The time-based Travelcard will continue to be sold , but some tickets will use stored value.
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We are selling more single tickets .
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Guildford Rally Teachers who sold tickets please send a list of names of those attending to Pat Shere.
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He did not need to sell tickets at the entrance of a marquee.
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It sells combination tickets to four museums for about £3.
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Stations of the Pennsylvania Railroad were used for picking up passengers and selling tickets .
unit
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He thinks that the company will be able to sell 12,000 units .
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Other citizens might also, if the bonds were sold in small units .
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Fujitsu looks to sell 35,000 units of the new models over the next two years.
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Kodak is exploring either selling its copier unit or setting a joint venture or strategic alliance.
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But how much does it cost to sell the units ?
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Wall Street had been clamoring for Kodak to sell the unit .
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Currently priced at £149, they have sold about 50,000 units in the year since it was first launched.
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In more than one case entire housing subdivisions have been sold before the first unit was constructed.
■ VERB
agree
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Last month, Ladd agreed to sell its Brown Jordan&038;.
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Sainsbury and Tesco said they would agree to sell the unmarked products.
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A lower price enables them to buy shares for less than the price at which they have agreed to sell the shares.
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Being willing to talk after your board agrees to sell you is different to requesting a move.
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Hamilton agreed to sell him the story.
buy
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Both trying to buy and trying to sell a property can have fundamental implications for most people's financial situation.
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Firms that provide swaps buy or sell U. S. Treasuries to hedge against sudden interest rate shifts.
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Many pastoral and voluntary caring relationships are now bought and sold in the market place.
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Not all the associations are jumping at the chance to buy and sell derivatives.
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Each contract covers the right to buy or sell 1,000 Dixons shares at a given price in the future.
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Jovana is 16 and works under-the-table, buying bread wholesale and selling it back to small stores.
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Options give investors the right to decide, at some later point, whether they want to buy or sell something.
expect
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It expects to sell , in two or three years, intelligent robots capable of limited judgement.
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The new batteries are expected to sell for about the same price as current models.
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Omron sold 6,000 Lunas in 1992 and expects to sell 3,000 Luna 2001s over the next twelve months.
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Eventually, dealers say, the irritant is expected to be sold in retail stores and convenience markets as well.
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It is expected to sell its entire shareholding.
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It is expected to sell for about $ 75 per bottle when it is released this year.
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Swindon Town expect to sell their entire allocation of thirty-six thousand tickets for the First Division play-off final.
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He also is expected to sell his expensive Bentley automobile, leaving only him with a Chevrolet Suburban.
plan
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Members are also planning to sell badges of its bee logo to boost funds.
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It had planned to sell the bonds today, underwriters said, but decided to wait because yields have risen recently.
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It plans to sell its franchises in those countries but continue to operate in partnership with Pepsico in Britain.
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NatWest plans eventually to sell the building.
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The owner, tycoon Antony Tannouri, 46, had planned to sell the masterpieces after getting a £23 million tax demand.
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New York City plans to sell $ 750 million in bonds in February.
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The Sister Superior at Bartestree says the nuns were already planning to sell up.
try
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Also, you don't get a queue of aggressive-looking old men trying to sell you E all night.
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He had tried to sell the O &038; Ys and failed.
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Finally, if you are trying to sell your house, but without much success, aromatherapy may be the answer.
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If you buy into that idea, let me try to sell you on yet another one.
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You might try to sell dreams but in the end people don't buy them.
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It is, rather, defining the specific thing that you are trying to sell .
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Mr Cross also denied that Mr Bond was trying to sell the painting himself.
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For your own welfare, I must try to sell you!
PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
be selling/going like hot cakes
be sold a pup/buy a pup
high-pressure sales/selling methods etc
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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Books that don't sell are sent back to the publishers.
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Do they sell brake fluid here?
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If you can, wait to sell until prices are high.
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It's not just a question of making a good product - we also have to go out and sell it to people.
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It is illegal to sell tobacco to anyone under the age of 18.
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Jackson faces a difficult struggle in selling his proposal to the city council.
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My parents sold the stereo at a garage sale.
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Postcards and souvenirs were being sold outside the cathedral.
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The antique buttons are very valuable, and we sell them for £100 and upwards.
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The company sold Braugh $100,000 worth of computers at discounted rates.
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The handcrafted rocking horses have sold well across the United States.
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The last model didn't sell as well as they'd expected.
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The painting was sold to an art gallery in Philadelphia.
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Their first album sold millions.
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There's no question about it - scandal sells newspapers.
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Tom's thinking of selling his motorcycle and buying a new one.
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We're hoping the house will sell quickly.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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Everyone seemed to be selling chromium picolinate.
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If you want, say, a job in customer service, those skills would be important selling points.
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It sold shares in an initial public offering in May 1994.
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Most supermarkets sell a wide range of products - often with special offers and price reductions.
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Raised in Chicago, Don sold construction services and transferred frequently.
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Some land was raised, leveled and sold to farmers.
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They don't even sell white heather any more or tell your fortune.
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Vending machines Vending machines usually sell items such as hot or cold drinks chocolate and cigarettes.
II. noun
PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
high-pressure sales/selling methods etc