Word Meanings - OVERSELL - Book Publishers vocabulary database

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

Additional info about word: 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 an extent that it is difficult to obtain them for delivery.

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• WHOSESOEVER
  The possessive of whosoever. See Whosoever.
• EXCEPT
  1. To take or leave out from a number or a whole as not belonging to it; to exclude; to omit. Who never touched The excepted tree. Milton. Wherein all other things concurred. Bp. Stillingfleet. 2. To object to; to protest against. Shak.
• MARKETABLENESS
  Quality of being marketable.
• EXCEED
  1. To go too far; to pass the proper bounds or measure. "In our reverence to whom, we can not possibly exceed." Jer. Taylor. Forty stripes he may give him, and not exceed. Deut. xxv. 3. 2. To be more or greater; to be paramount. Shak.
• HIGHER-UP
  A superior officer or official; -- used chiefly in pl.
• SHORT-WITED
  Having little wit; not wise; having scanty intellect or judgment.
• HIGHERING
  Rising higher; ascending. In ever highering eagle circles. Tennyson.
• EXCEEDING
  More than usual; extraordinary; more than sufficient; measureless. "The exceeding riches of his grace." Eph. ii. 7. -- Ex*ceed"ing*ness, n. Sir P. Sidney.
• MARKETER
  One who attends a market to buy or sell; one who carries goods to market.
• PRICE
  to buy, OI. renim I sell. Cf. Appreciate, Depreciate, Interpret, 1. The sum or amount of money at which a thing is valued, or the value which a seller sets on his goods in market; that for which something is bought or sold, or offered for sale;
• EXCEPTIONER
  One who takes exceptions or makes objections. Milton.
• MARKETSTEAD
  A market place. Drayton.
• SHORT CIRCUIT
  A circuit formed or closed by a conductor of relatively low resistance because shorter or of relatively great conductivity.
• EXCEDENT
  Excess.
• SHORT-HANDED
  Short of, or lacking the regular number of, servants or helpers.
• PRICEITE
  A hydrous borate of lime, from Oregon.
• SHORTHEAD
  A sucking whale less than one year old; -- so called by sailors.
• WHICHEVER; WHICHSOEVER
  Whether one or another; whether one or the other; which; that one which; as, whichever road you take, it will lead you to town.
• SHORTCAKE
  An unsweetened breakfast cake shortened with butter or lard, rolled thin, and baked.
• EXCEPTIONAL
  Forming an exception; not ordinary; uncommon; rare; hence, better than the average; superior. Lyell. This particular spot had exceptional advantages. Jowett -- Ex*cep"tion*al*ly , adv.
• 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
• REDELIVERY
  1. Act of delivering back. 2. A second or new delivery or liberation.
• 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.
• NEWMARKET
  A long, closely fitting cloak.
• 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.