sell something ↔ off

ˈsell-off noun [countableC]

1. BFS British EnglishBrE the sale of an industry that the government owns, to private companies or other people 〔国有企业的〕出售

2. American EnglishAmE the sale of a lot of stocks or shares, which makes the price decrease 〔证券或股票的〕抛售

Examples from the Corpus

sell-off• Unless safeguards are introduced, sell-offs will occur.• With the Treasury market sell-off, buyers saw higher-yielding mortgagebacked bonds as a safe harbor, traders said.• Has any account been taken of the record of those advisers in past sell-offs?• Yesterday, as the sell-off gained momentum, the stock plunged 31 / 4 to close at 281 / 4 on Nasdaq.• With no new junk deals sold yet this year, demand outweighed pressure from the sell-off in Treasurys, traders added.• Would the Minister find it acceptable if the same sort of windfall profits were made by the beneficiaries of the sell-offs?• The sell-offs had a dramatic effect because some of the businesses were loss-makers which dragged down profits last time.

From Longman Business Dictionary

sell something → off phrasal verbphr v [transitiveT]COMMERCE

to sell all or most of an industry, company, business etc, usually at a low price

He plans to break the company up and sell it off as several independent businesses.

The privatization of state enterprises will be delayed until they can be sold off at a better price.

→ see also sell-off

sell-offˈsell-off noun [countableC]FINANCE

1a situation in which many investors sell their bonds, shares etc, often very quickly

In an otherwise calm market, there were steep sell-offs in shares.

2when a business, company etc is sold to another company

6,000 metal union workers occupied two shipbuilding companies to protest at their planned sell-offs.

Chinese

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Corpus

phrasal verbphr v

a) SELLto sell something, especially for a cheap price, because you need the money or because you want to get rid of it 卖掉，〔尤指〕廉价出售

After the war, we had to sell off part of the farm.

战后，我们只好把农场的一部分廉价出售。

We sell off leftover cakes before we close.

我们关门前把剩下的蛋糕削价出售。

b) BBSELLto sell all or part of an industry or company 卖掉〔整个或部分企业〕

The Leicestershire company has sold off many of its smaller branches to cut debts.

莱斯特郡的那个公司为了减轻债务卖掉了许多小的分部。

→ sell something ↔ off at sell1(7)