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sell off something | American Dictionary

sell off something

phrasal verb with sellverb[ I/T ]us/sel/past tense and past participlesoldus/soʊld/
to exchange all or a large part of something for money:
Farmers have had to sell off cattle because of the drought.

sell sth off | Business English

sell sth off

phrasal verb with sellverbuk /sel/ussold | sold
FINANCE
to sell all or part of a business or industry, often at a low price:
He resisted all attempts to sell the public broadcast channel off to the private sector.
COMMERCE, FINANCE
to charge a low price for something to encourage people to buy it:
sell off assets/stockThey're selling off last year's stock at half price.
sell-off
noun[ C ]
uk /ˈselɒf/ us /-ɑːf/
FINANCE
a sale of a business, particular assets, etc. at a low price to encourage someone to buy it:
A sell-off would mark the second time that the business has changed hands in two years.
The book value grossly understates the sell-off value of the company.
FINANCE, STOCK MARKET
an occasion when a large number of shares in a company are sold, often causing their value to fall:
The dollar was little changed after a sell-off at the end of last week.

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Also, these rules determine how pension funds will react in case of a fall in asset prices, possibly inducing a pro-cyclical sell-off of risky assets.
These included tightened regulatory oversight and a sell-off of many of the bailed-out banks to foreigners.
That sum is large enough to do away with the great bonanza of the tax handouts that the sell-off is intended to create.
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The air traffic control sell-off was brought back on to the agenda to plug the gap.
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No one doubts that the principle involved in the sell-off of air traffic control is very important.
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That, unfortunately, is another legacy of the great playing field sell-off.
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I believe this is a cynical rescue operation to save the water privatisation programme, to save the sell-off.
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What is the effect on such a person of the sell-off of public assets at knock-down prices?
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Will those services be included in the so-called sell-off?
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As they have closed, they have become ripe for sell-off and for housing then to be built there.
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Are these increases the pay-off that follows the sell-off?
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Coal is following the three classic stages of privatisation—write-off, sell-off and rip-off.
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They are the only categories to escape the great sell-off.
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They are too important to our regional structure to be subjected to the threat of takeover or sell-off.
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Where will that sense of identity and community be respected in the proposed local development companies and the proposed sell-off of community assets?
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