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Meaning of "sell-off" in the English dictionary

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PRONUNCIATION OF SELL-OFF

sell-off  [ˈsɛlɒf] play
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GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF SELL-OFF

noun
adjective
verb
adverb
pronoun
preposition
conjunction
determiner
exclamation
Sell-Off is a noun.
A noun is a type of word the meaning of which determines reality. Nouns provide the names for all things: people, objects, sensations, feelings, etc.

WHAT DOES SELL-OFF MEAN IN ENGLISH?

Definition of sell-off in the English dictionary

The definition of sell-off in the dictionary is the act or an instance of selling something, esp an industry owned by the state, or a company's shares.


WORDS THAT RHYME WITH SELL-OFF


cloff
klɒf
Karloff
ˈkɑːlɒf
Orlov
ˈɔːlɒf
pull-off
ˈpʊlɒf
Vavilov
ˈvævɪˌlɒf
Wolof
ˈwɒlɒf

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE SELL-OFF

sell
sell down the river
sell in
sell off
sell oneself
sell out
sell short
sell someone a pup
sell up
sell-by date
sell-through
Sella
sellable
Sellafield
selle
seller
seller´s market
Sellers
Sellers screw thread
sellers´ market

WORDS THAT END LIKE SELL-OFF

cut-off
drop-off
face-off
fall-off
kick-off
on-off
one-off
play-off
roll-on-roll-off
roll-on/roll-off
set-off
show-off
showing-off
shut-off
spin-off
stop-off
tail-off
trade-off
turn-off
well-off

Synonyms and antonyms of sell-off in the English dictionary of synonyms

SYNONYMS

Translation of «sell-off» into 25 languages

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TRANSLATION OF SELL-OFF

Find out the translation of sell-off to 25 languages with our English multilingual translator.
The translations of sell-off from English to other languages presented in this section have been obtained through automatic statistical translation; where the essential translation unit is the word «sell-off» in English.

Translator English - Chinese

抛售
1,325 millions of speakers

Translator English - Spanish

venta masiva
570 millions of speakers

English

sell-off
510 millions of speakers

Translator English - Hindi

बिकवाली
380 millions of speakers
ar

Translator English - Arabic

البيع
280 millions of speakers

Translator English - Russian

распродажи
278 millions of speakers

Translator English - Portuguese

sell-off
270 millions of speakers

Translator English - Bengali

বিক্রি বন্ধ
260 millions of speakers

Translator English - French

sell-off
220 millions of speakers

Translator English - Malay

menjual
190 millions of speakers

Translator English - German

Ausverkauf
180 millions of speakers

Translator English - Japanese

売却
130 millions of speakers

Translator English - Korean

매각
85 millions of speakers

Translator English - Javanese

Sell-off
85 millions of speakers
vi

Translator English - Vietnamese

bán tháo
80 millions of speakers

Translator English - Tamil

விற்க
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Marathi

विक्री-बंद
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Turkish

elden çıkarmak
70 millions of speakers

Translator English - Italian

sell- off
65 millions of speakers

Translator English - Polish

wyprzedaż
50 millions of speakers

Translator English - Ukrainian

розпродажі
40 millions of speakers

Translator English - Romanian

vinde - off
30 millions of speakers
el

Translator English - Greek

sell - off
15 millions of speakers
af

Translator English - Afrikaans

verkoop -off
14 millions of speakers
sv

Translator English - Swedish

utförsäljningen
10 millions of speakers
no

Translator English - Norwegian

sell- off
5 millions of speakers

Trends of use of sell-off

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TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «SELL-OFF»

The term «sell-off» is quite widely used and occupies the 45.651 position in our list of most widely used terms in the English dictionary.
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FREQUENCY OF USE OF THE TERM «SELL-OFF» OVER TIME

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Examples of use in the English literature, quotes and news about sell-off

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10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «SELL-OFF»

Discover the use of sell-off in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to sell-off and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
1
Privatisation: Sell Off Or Sell Out : the Australian ...
The new introduction updates the cases from the book, and looks at what things have changed and what have not. There is particular reference to the current proposed privatisation of the electricity industry in NSW.
Robert Graham Walker, Bob Walker, Betty Con Walker, 2008
2
Mergers, Sell-offs, and Economic Efficiency
WE STRIVE now to understand the economics of sell-off on a broader plane than the case studies permit. Our principal focus will be the companies covered by the Federal Trade Commission's Line of Business surveys for the years 1974 ...
David J. Ravenscraft, Frederic M. Scherer, 2011
3
Knights, Raiders, and Targets
The basic question addressed here is, What financial performance pattern preceded sell-off? Was divestiture the sequitur to disappointing profitability, as suggested by our case studies, or was the typical divested unit not significantly different ...
Coffee, John C. Coffee Louis Lowenstein Susan Rose-Ackerman, 1988
4
The Relative Performance of Joint Ventures and Wholly-Owned ...
Category Year of Year of Exit Longevity (years) Type of Exit Main Reason for Exit2 Establishment JVs 2000 2004 4 Sell-off ? 2001 2002 1 Liquidation Economic crisis (F) 2001 2008 7 Sell-off Good offer (V) 1996 2007 11 Sell-off Fierce ...
Matthias Otto, 2010
5
Kohn on Music Licensing
(iii) Within forty-five (45) days after the end of said Sell-Off Period, Subpublisher shall render separate final accounting statements to Owner computing payments of all monies, as hereinabove provided, in respect to the sell-off ...
Al Kohn, Bob Kohn, 2002
6
Mergers: What Can Go Wrong and How to Prevent It
6 Reversing the Error: Sell-Offs and Other Restructurings Assuming at some point that management and the board come to a decision that a prior merger or acquisition was a mistake, then a sell—off of that business unit may be a means of ...
Patrick A. Gaughan, 2005
7
Globalization
As long as these assets continue to offer high ratios of return to risk, there is no reason to suppose that foreign owners of these assets—any more than American owners of these assets—will nevertheless suddenly sell off these assets en ...
Donald J. Boudreaux, 2008
8
License Agreements: Forms and Checklists
LICENSEE has complied, and continues to comply, with this Agreement in all other material respects, including LICENSEE's obligation to pay royalties on, and to account to the League for, such sales in the Sell-Off Period (such accounting to  ...
Gregory J. Battersby, Charles W. Grimes, 2013
9
Value Creation in European Equity Carve-Outs
While choosing a particular level will always contain an arbitrary element, there are at least two sensible limiting values: First, a 100% threshold for a reacquisition and a 0% threshold for a sell-off: These are the extreme values corresponding ...
Prof. Ulrich Hommel, Ph.D., Nikolas Pojezny, 2007
10
The Art of Capital Restructuring: Creating Shareholder Value ...
They also find that stock prices react favorably when a firm announces a sell-off and uses the proceeds to repay debt. Yet, the stock price reaction is not statistically different from zero when the firm retains the proceeds. This evidence casts ...
H. Kent Baker, Halil Kiymaz, 2011

5 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «SELL-OFF»

Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term sell-off is used in the context of the following news items.
1
United Airlines: An Analysis After The Sell-Off (UAL)
Disclosure: The author is long UAL. (More...)The author wrote this article themselves, and it expresses their own opinions. The author is not receiving ... «Seeking Alpha, May 15»
2
Rate-recoil prompts another EM sell-off
Emerging market companies have suffered investor routs before, but few have been quite so relentless as the sell-off this September. For nine working days the ... «Financial Times, Sep 14»
3
US Markets Quiet After Global Sell-Off
European stocks joined a global slide on Friday after a big drop in Tokyo that followed a sharp sell-off in Internet and biotechnology shares in the United States a ... «New York Times, Apr 14»
4
Tech stock sell-off weighs on US futures
The sell-off followed a marginally weaker-than-expected official employment report for March, which showed 192,000 jobs were created during the month. «CNBC.com, Apr 14»
5
Tech sell-off extends Nasdaq losses
The sell-off in technology stocks saw losses on the Nasdaq index extended to 4.6 per cent over the past three trading sessions, raising the prospect of further ... «Financial Times, Apr 14»

REFERENCE
« EDUCALINGO. Sell-Off [online]. Available <https://educalingo.com/en/dic-en/sell-off-1>. May 2024 ».
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