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Princeton's WordNet

  1. sell offverb

    get rid of by selling, usually at reduced prices

    "The store sold off the surplus merchandise"

Wiktionary

  1. sell offverb

    To sell at low cost, in order to sell it quickly.

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  1. sell off

    Sell off refers to the process of rapidly selling assets, such as stocks, bonds, or property, often all at once, typically to pay off debts, improve liquidity, or because of market concerns. It can cause prices to fall due to the sudden increase in supply. This term is commonly used in financial and investment sectors.

Editors Contribution

  1. sell off

    regular (when you do sales no making profits or necessity)

    I SOLD OFF TODAY ALL MY MERCHADISE IN ORDER TO GET CASH


    Submitted by jjvv16789 on March 19, 2020  

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Numerology

  1. Chaldean Numerology

    The numerical value of sell off in Chaldean Numerology is: 1

  2. Pythagorean Numerology

    The numerical value of sell off in Pythagorean Numerology is: 3

Examples of sell off in a Sentence

  1. Nicholas Colas:

    Investors are looking for a steeper yield curve. They were looking for the Fed to lift off. They were looking for the long end of the curve to sell off and yields to go higher.

  2. Andre Cilliers:

    Risk sentiment in markets turned negative as major stock markets suffered big losses yesterday, and investors turned to the dollar for safety, concerns surrounding stock over-valuations saw hedge funds reduce long positions, which triggered a bigger sell-off.

  3. Lorne Baring:

    The DAX was punished by the scandal at Volkswagen, and it seemed overly sold during the global sell-off in the summer. But those moves were overdone.

  4. Peter Rosenstreich:

    We anticipate a short-term sell off in gold, although a no vote was mostly priced in.

  5. Sean McCalgan:

    We believe selling non-core assets would merely be a quick fix for Eskom when in fact the underlying problems are not being addressed, the government should be looking to sell off portions of Eskom ownership rather than other assets and trying to patch up holes.


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