Sell in spanish
pronunciation: bendeɹ̩ part of speech: verb
sell = vender. [Verbo irregular: pasado y participio sold]
Example: Since a software package is to be sold it must be visible on the marketplace.more:
» a tough sell = algo muy difícil.
Example: One librarian explained that 'getting fellow librarians to use the site when answering young adult homework questions is a tough sell'.» hard-sell = venta agresiva.
Example: The article 'Commerce doesn't mean hard-sell, and multimedia doesn't mean hype' discusses a number of key issues capable of making or breaking an organization's attempts to capitalize on the WWW.» outsell = venderse más que. [Verbo irregular: pasado y participio outsold. También escrito out-sell. Pincha en para ver una lista de palabras que comienzan con este prefijo usado para indicar generalmente que una persona o cosa supera a otra]
Example: Paper products in the field still outsell electronic versions, and no one foresees a slackening of the book as the primary product.» oversell = exagerar las cualidades de Algo, exagerar los méritos de Algo, dar a Algo más importancia de la que tiene.
Example: Has the library and information profession, by oversell and too narrow development programmes, encouraged exaggerated expectations in developing countries as to the power of information in problem solving?.» resell [re-sell] = revender. [Verbo irregular: pasado y participio resold. Pincha en para ver otras palabras que comienzan con este prefijo]
Example: Many individuals who are publishing music, photographs and other similar information via the Internet are finding that others are taking this information and reselling it without payment of any royalty.» sell + an idea = convencer.
Example: The author outlines some methods of selling to adolescent pupils the idea of reading fiction for fun.» sell + a notion = convencer.
Example: We are having to undertake a programme of effectively selling the notion to various schools within the university, to ensure some acceptance of ejournals when they duly arrive.» sell + a pig in a poke = dar gato por liebre.
Example: Workers don't understand that their rights are evaporating and that they are being sold a pig in a poke.» sell at + bargain price = vender a precio de ganga.
Example: In the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries these 'copy books' were claimed and promptly sold at bargain prices by the London workmen.» sell at + cost = vender a precio de costo.
Example: Part of its work had included the preparation of a directory of city organizations and services which the library agreed to publish and sell at cost.» sell-by date = fecha de caducidad, fecha de vencimiento.
Example: The sell-by dates on the egg cartons are just to appease those who want a date on everything.» sell + fast = venderse rápido.
Example: Homes are selling fast in Amarillo according to local realtors showing that now is the perfect time to buy a house.» sell in + bulk = vender al por mayor.
Example: The only books, therefore, which are normally sold 'non-net' are educational books sold in bulk to schools, for which suppliers are allowed to negotiate special prices.» sell like + hot cakes = venderse como rosquillas, venderse como churros, venderse como pan caliente.
Example: Organic farmer stumbles onto a product that is selling like hot cakes -- chives.» sell + Nombre + for a pittance = vender por una miseria, vender por cuatro perras, vender por cuatro reales.
Example: Destitute, Vivaldi was forced to sell further scores for a pittance before dying in a fleapit, aged 63, at the end of July 1741.» sell + Nombre + for a song = vender por cuatro perras, vender por cuatro duros, vender por cuatro reales, vender casi regalado, vender casi tirado, vender por casi nada.
Example: I sold them for a song compared to what they go for now.» sell + Nombre + into slavery = vender a Alguien como esclavo.
Example: Strangely enough, in 1434 Pope Eugene IV's papal bull established a complete prohibition on selling the natives of the Canary Islands into slavery.» sell + Nombre + short = infravalorar, subestimar, ser injusto con, hacerle una injusticia a.
Example: To view her just as a role model for women sells her short, she was a pioneer who paved the way for women in what was once a male-dominated profession.» sell off = vender.
Example: After selling off a few things, they went to a bar where they had a few rounds of drinking, and a few bar hops later they both passed out on the sidewalk.» sell out = agotarse, vender todas las mercancías, venderlo todo, vender todas las entradas de un Evento.
Example: The first edition was quickly sold out, and I decided to revise it in the light of comments by colleagues and reviewers, and of developments in my own thinking.» sell + Posesivo + soul = vender el alma.
Example: This is a chance to name and shame all the 'celebrities' who choose to sell their souls for filthy lucre by advertising useless shit that we don't need.» sell + Posesivo + soul to the devil = vender el alma al diablo.
Example: Legend has it that he sold his soul to the devil so that he could play anything.» sell + Reflexivo + for gold = venderse por oro, venderse a cambio de oro.
Example: We all agreed that he was a spy and a deserter, who had gone over to the enemy camp and sold himself for gold.» sell + Reflexivo + short = venderse barato, subestimarse, infravalorarse.
Example: She said she 'sold herself short' by allowing work to come before her friends, her marriage and her family.» short sell = saldo, rebaja. [Vender algo por debajo de su precio real]
Example: The article is entitled 'Publishing abroad: fair trade or short sell for non English speaking authors?'.