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词汇 oversell
释义 oversell
verb[ T ]
mainly USuk /ˌəʊ.vəˈsel/ us /ˌoʊ.vɚˈsel/oversold
to sell more than is available: 销售过多;空头销售
The flight had been oversold.该航班机票超售了。
SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases

Selling
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Black Friday
bundle
bundle something with something
bundling
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hock
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ply
sales drive
sales pitch
salesmanship
sell out
sell something off
sellout
sting

oversell | Business English


oversell
verb[ I or T ]
uk /ˌəʊvəˈsel/usoversold | oversold
MARKETING
to sell more of something than is available:
Airlines oversell on the assumption that some passengers won't turn up.
Compare
undersell
MARKETING
to make an idea, product, opportunity, etc. seem better than it is:
Be honest about the technology; do not oversell its potential.
If you oversell, you may actually lose sales.
Compare
undersell
FINANCE, STOCK MARKET
to cause the prices of financial markets, shares, etc. to fall too far in relation to their real value:
But at $41.75 - almost 30% off its 52-week high - this stock has been oversold.
See also
oversold

Examples of oversell


oversell
There is a tendency to oversell the overlap between cell groups 1 and cell assemblies, often based on dubious interpretation of volume conduction.
Oversell of nonshared environmental effects was misleading for another reason - namely, that findings are rather different for some forms of psychopathology, particularly antisocial behavior.
The authors oversell the point.
Anyone with experience of selling knows that, when a product or service is oversold, the consumer backlash can be dramatic.
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Many of the supporters of devolution tend to oversell it.
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Training is oversold as a way of helping unemployed people back to work.
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I expect that the politicians of the time were tempted to oversell their policies somewhat.
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My case is that the goods were oversold.
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The potential for e-voting is sometimes oversold on the basis of being related to the number of internet users.
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It is entirely right that we should not try to oversell what it stands for.
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He said that we had oversold comprehensive education.
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That argument may have been oversold, but it is a possibility.
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We oversold the first agenda, but let us take great care not to undersell the new agenda.
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We are not in any sense overselling the idea of the orders.
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We certainly do not take the view that this area has been oversold.
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