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If a person or thing sell something, they cause people to want to buy it: Scandal and gossip is what sells newspapers. 6. If you sell an idea to someone or sell someone on an idea, you convince them that it is a good thing; an informal use: Let's hear your proposal. You 've got 10 minutes to sell it to me. 7. If you sell yourself, you present yourself in a way which makes people have confidence in you and your abilities; an informal use: You 've got to sell yourself at the interview. 8. If you sell your honour, principles, etc., you give these things up in order to get some personal profit or advantage: He sold his principles for a successful career. 9. If you sell someone down the river, you betray them for some personal profit or advantage; an informal expression: He was only too ready to sell his native country down the river.

Supplement 2.

The Semantic Structure of the Conversive “To Buy” 1) American Heritage Dictionary (Dl)

1. To acquire in exchange for money or its equivalent; purchase. 2. To be capable of purchasing: Certainly there are lots of things in life that money won't buy. (Ogden Nash). 3. To acquire by sacrifice, exchange or trade: wanted to buy love with gifts.4. To bribe: tried to buy a judge. 5. [Slang] To accept the truth or feasibility of: The officers didn 't buy my lame excuse for speeding.[intransitive]: 6. To purchase goods; act as a purchaser. 7. To believe in a person or movement or subscribe to an idea or theory: couldn 't buy into that brand of conservatism.

2) New Webster's Dictionary and Thesaurus (D2)

1. To acquire by paying money, purchase. 2. To obtain at some cost or sacrifice. 3. To win over by bribary or promises. 4. To be the price of: $ 4.000 will buy the machine.

3) Webster's New World Dictionary of American English (D3)

1. To get by paying or agreeing to pay money or some equivalent; purchase. 2. To get as by an exchange: buy victory with human lives. 3. To be the means of purchasing: all that money can buy. 4. To bribe or hire as by bribing. 5. [Slang] To accept as true, valid, practical, agreeable, etc.: I can't but this excuse. 6. [Archaic] Theological To redeem.[intransitive]: 7. To buy something. 8. To buy merchandise as a buyer.

4) The Concise Oxford Dictionary (D4)

1. To obtain in exchange for money etc. 2. To serve to procure: money cannot buy happiness. 3. To get by some sacrifice: dearly bought. 4. To win over (person) by bribery etc. 5. [Slang] To accept, believe, be deceived by, suffer, receive by punishment, etc.: buy it, be killed.

5) Collins COBUILD Dictionary (D5)

1. If you buy something, you obtain it by paying money for it: She could not afford to buy it... Let me buy you a drink. 2. The amount that a certain sum of money buys is its value in terms of the quantity of goods or currency that can be obtained with it: The value of the pension in relation to the things that it buys. 3. If you buy freedom, time, etc., you offer something in return for your freedom, more time, etc.: They tried to buy time by saying that it would be ready next week. 4. If someone buys someone else, they get their help or services by bribing or corrupting them: I won't be bought that easily. 5. If you say "I'll buy that", you mean that you accept or believe what somebody has told you; an informal use: OK, I'll buy that... You've got no chance. He 'II never buy it!

Supplement 3.

Extracts from “Beowulf” with the Verb “to sell”.1 With the meaning “to give”.



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