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Word Meanings - BOOKSELLING - Book Publishers vocabulary database

The employment of selling books.

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  • BOOKSELLING
    The employment of selling books.
  • BOOKSTAND
    1. A place or stand for the sale of books in the streets; a bookstall. 2. A stand to hold books for reading or reference.
  • BOOKSHOP
    A bookseller's shop.
  • BOOKSHELF
    A shelf to hold books.
  • SELL
    1. A saddle for a horse. He left his lofty steed with golden self. Spenser. 2. A throne or lofty seat. Fairfax.
  • BOOKSELLER
    One who sells books.
  • BOOKSTORE
    A store where books are kept for sale; -- called in England a bookseller's shop.
  • EMPLOYMENT
    1. The act of employing or using; also, the state of being employed. 2. That which engages or occupies; that which consumes time or attention; office or post of business; service; as, agricultural employments; mechanical employments;
  • SELLER
    One who sells. Chaucer.
  • SELLANDERS; SELLENDERS
    See SALLENDERS
  • BOOKSTALL
    A stall or stand where books are sold.
  • UNEMPLOYMENT
    Quality or state of being not employed; -- used esp. in economics, of the condition of various social classes when temporarily thrown out of employment, as those engaged for short periods, those whose trade is decaying, and those least competent.
  • FILOSELLE
    A kind of silk thread less glossy than floss, and spun from coarser material. It is much used in embroidery instead of floss.
  • EYSELL
    See SHAK
  • ROSELLA
    A beautiful Australian parrakeet often kept as a cage bird. The head and back of the neck are scarlet, the throat is white, the back dark green varied with lighter green, and the breast yellow.
  • DAMOSEL; DAMOSELLA; DAMOISELLE
    See DAMSEL
  • BISSELL TRUCK
    A truck for railroad rolling stock, consisting of two ordinary axle boxes sliding in guides attached to a triangular frame; -- called also pony truck.
  • MADEMOISELLE
    A marine food fish , of the Southern United States; -- called also yellowtail, and silver perch. (more info) 1. A French title of courtesy given to a girl or an unmarried lady, equivalent to the English Miss. Goldsmith.
  • OUTSELL
    1. To exceed in amount of sales; to sell more than. 2. To exceed in the price of selling; to fetch more than; to exceed in value. Fuller. Shak.
  • RUMSELLER
    One who sells rum; one who deals in intoxicating liquors; especially, one who sells spirituous beverages at retail.
  • MOSELLE
    A light wine, usually white, produced in the vicinity of the river Moselle.
  • DISEMPLOYMENT
    The state of being disemployed, or deprived of employment. This glut of leisure and disemployment. Jer. Taylor.
  • OVERSELL
    1. To sell for a higher price than; to exceed in selling price. One whose beauty Would oversell all Italy. Beau. & Fl. 2. To sell beyond means of delivery. Oversold market , a market in which stocks or commodities have been sold "short" to such
  • DEMOISELLE
    The Numidian crane ; -- so called on account of the grace and symmetry of its form and movements. (more info) 1. A young lady; a damsel; a lady's maid.
  • SUBSELLIUM
    One of the stalls of the lower range where there are two ranges. See Illust. of Stall.
  • TESSELLATA
    A division of Crinoidea including numerous fossil species in which the body is covered with tessellated plates.
  • UNDERSELL
    To sell the same articles at a lower price than; to sell cheaper than.

 

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