Definition of "sell" []

• To exchange or deliver for money or its equivalent. (verb-transitive)
• To offer for sale, as for one's business or livelihood: The partners sell textiles. (verb-transitive)
• To give up or surrender in exchange for a price or reward: sell one's soul to the devil. (verb-transitive)
• To be purchased in (a certain quantity); achieve sales of: a book that sold a million copies. (verb-transitive)
• To bring about or encourage sales of; promote: Good publicity sold the product. (verb-transitive)

American Heritage(R) Dictionary of the English Language, Fifth Edition. Copyright (c) 2011 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.

• "Fans know what sell: they write stories, make vids from clips, create drawings from those items already solid enough to *sell*."
• "In fact the word sell comes from the Old English word"
• "The point here is, it's one thing to use the term sell the war, promote what you're doing."