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supersell en · VERB

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Etymology

From super- + sell.

Meanings

1. (transitive) To sell in great quantities.
   • We are now a nation growing up with our earliest instincts'^([sic]) being "adjusted" to a technological food manufacture — to respond to good-looking dead food is right, and to turn away from this supersold garbage is to encourage criticism. 1978, Graham Kerr, The love feast, page 81:
   • The day of superselling and all that sort of thing is past. A good article does not need supersalesmanship, while a poor article can no longer be moved by any kind of salesmanship. 2003, Samuel Crowther, A Basis for Stability, page 282:

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