give or hand over (something) in exchange for money

they had sold the car

the family business had been sold off

I was trying to sell him my butterfly collection

persuade someone of the merits of

he sold the idea of making a film about Tchaikovsky

he just won't sell himself

trick or deceive (someone)

what we want is to go out of here quiet, and talk this show up, and sell the rest of the town

an act of selling or attempting to sell something

every other television commercial is a sell for Australian lager

a disappointment, typically one arising from being deceived as to the merits of something

actually, Hawaii's a bit of a sell—not a patch on Corfu