What does selling mean?

Definitions for selling
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Princeton's WordNet

  1. selling, merchandising, marketingnoun

    the exchange of goods for an agreed sum of money

Wiktionary

  1. sellingnoun

    Action of the verb to sell.

ChatGPT

  1. selling

    Selling refers to the act or process of exchanging a product, service, or asset for money. It involves promoting or advertising a product or service, attracting and convincing potential buyers, and completing a transaction where money is exchanged for the ownership or use of the product or service. It is a fundamental part of business operations and commerce.

Webster Dictionary

  1. Selling

    of Sell

Wikidata

  1. Selling

    Selling is a village and civil parish south of Faversham and west of Canterbury in Kent, England.

Editors Contribution

  1. sellingverb

    Verb form of the word sell.

    The selling price was confirmed.


    Submitted by MaryC on March 4, 2020  

Surnames Frequency by Census Records

  1. SELLING

    According to the U.S. Census Bureau, Selling is ranked #101247 in terms of the most common surnames in America.

    The Selling surname appeared 178 times in the 2010 census and if you were to sample 100,000 people in the United States, approximately 0 would have the surname Selling.

    92.7% or 165 total occurrences were White.
    4.4% or 8 total occurrences were of two or more races.

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British National Corpus

  1. Spoken Corpus Frequency

    Rank popularity for the word 'selling' in Spoken Corpus Frequency: #2554

  2. Written Corpus Frequency

    Rank popularity for the word 'selling' in Written Corpus Frequency: #1447

  3. Nouns Frequency

    Rank popularity for the word 'selling' in Nouns Frequency: #2641

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Numerology

  1. Chaldean Numerology

    The numerical value of selling in Chaldean Numerology is: 5

  2. Pythagorean Numerology

    The numerical value of selling in Pythagorean Numerology is: 6

Examples of selling in a Sentence

  1. Trevor Sikorski:

    Any increase in free allocation would result in a reduction in auction volumes - so the impact would be less industrial buying and potentially more (industrial) selling but that would be offset with the reduction in (auctioning) volumes.

  2. Darren Huston:

    We like selling experience versus selling things. We also believe there’s a large body of customers who are looking for value more than just saving a dollar on a hotel room.”

  3. Masafumi Yamamoto:

    The market is used to seeing this by now, but if a deal isn't reached today, the euro could face selling pressure and dollar/yen could also see the same as risk appetite will be hurt.

  4. Edwin Sabuhoro:

    I thought of an idea of turning poachers to farmers, i left them with that and they started farming, and when I came back six months after I found they had harvested enough -- they had enough food at home, but they were [also] selling more in the markets.

  5. Daniel Ek:

    We want to go further with our platform, the only case where we would be interested in selling the company is if someone would offer the possibility of a larger platform.

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