sell up

See also: sell-up

English

Verb

sell up (third-person singular simple present sells up, present participle selling up, simple past and past participle sold up)

(intransitive) To sell one's business or other major asset (such as a home).
(transitive, Britain) To sell all (of the assets of a company or person), in order to reduce its debts or gain liquid money.
- 1847 January – 1848 July, William Makepeace Thackeray, chapter 9, in Vanity Fair […], London: Bradbury and Evans […], published 1848, OCLC 3174108:
  […] he was never known to give away a shilling or to do a good action, but was of a pleasant, sly, laughing mood, and would cut his joke and drink his glass with a tenant and sell him up the next day […]
(marking) To upsell.
- 2001, Montrose S. Sommers, James G. Barnes, Fundamentals of marketing (page 438)
  Attracting consumers with a low-priced feature item and then pointing out weaknesses in order to sell up to a more expensive […]
- 2003, H. Eugene Weiss, Chrysler, Ford, Durant and Sloan (page 37)
  He was not going to have salesman ^[sic] sell up to a more expensive and more profitable car that was no better than his Ford.

Anagrams

upsell

单词	sell up
释义	sell up See also: sell-up English Verb sell up (third-person singular simple present sells up, present participle selling up, simple past and past participle sold up) (intransitive) To sell one's business or other major asset (such as a home). (transitive, Britain) To sell all (of the assets of a company or person), in order to reduce its debts or gain liquid money. 1847 January – 1848 July, William Makepeace Thackeray, chapter 9, in Vanity Fair […], London: Bradbury and Evans […], published 1848, OCLC 3174108: […] he was never known to give away a shilling or to do a good action, but was of a pleasant, sly, laughing mood, and would cut his joke and drink his glass with a tenant and sell him up the next day […] (marking) To upsell. 2001, Montrose S. Sommers, James G. Barnes, Fundamentals of marketing (page 438) Attracting consumers with a low-priced feature item and then pointing out weaknesses in order to sell up to a more expensive […] 2003, H. Eugene Weiss, Chrysler, Ford, Durant and Sloan (page 37) He was not going to have salesman ^[sic] sell up to a more expensive and more profitable car that was no better than his Ford. Anagrams upsell
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