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  1. Selling out

    Selling out is the compromising of integrity, morality, or principles in exchange for personal gain, such as money. In terms of music or art, selling out is associated with attempts to tailor material to a mainstream or commercial audience; for example, a musician who alters his material to encompass a wider audience may be labeled by fans who pre-date the change as a sellout.

Dictionary of Nautical Terms

  1. selling out

    An officer in the army wishing to retire from the service, may do so by disposing of his commission.

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  1. Chaldean Numerology

    The numerical value of selling out in Chaldean Numerology is: 4

  2. Pythagorean Numerology

    The numerical value of selling out in Pythagorean Numerology is: 8

Examples of selling out in a Sentence

  1. Lindsey Graham:

    He’s a war criminal, he wants all of Ukraine eventually, and he will take it if we don’t stop him here. So, I’m not suggesting Israel is selling out Ukraine. I’m suggesting that the Biden administration has no stomach for this fight. The reason they’re slow walking military aide to the Ukrainians is because they never expected Putin to lose, and they can’t embrace the idea that he would lose. He’s a climate change partner. He’s an Iran dealmaker in the eyes of the Biden administration.

  2. Andrew Ziem:

    Sales have come in waves. There was a boost after the second presidential debate and a bigger wave after FBI Director James Comey reopened the investigation on Friday, a few days ago I had just reordered the cloths from the printer and was mostly keeping up with signing them, but yesterday sales went through the roof. I panicked as I saw them selling out so fast because I do not like back orders, and I don't know how I am going to sign them all.

  3. Larry Shannon Hargrove:

    It came to me pretty clear that this was not an impeachable act, it was about sex and not about selling out the country or committing treason or something like that. And I just come up with that line :' Leave Bill Clinton alone --'cause everybody's done something wrong.'.

  4. Obey Mabena:

    By default, we are on the side of Russia. And to us Ukraine what we call a sell-out. It is selling out to the west.

  5. John Ackerman:

    Nobody in their right mind could imagine him selling out to Trump.

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