sells - 20 thesaurus results
| Main Entry: | sell |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | exchange an object for money |
| Synonyms: | advertise, auction, bargain, barter, boost, close, contract, dispose, drum, dump, exchange, handle, hawk, hustle, market, merchandise, move, peddle, persuade, pitch, plug, puff*, push, retail, retain, snow, soft sell*, soft soap*, spiel*, stock, sweet talk*, trade, traffic, unload, vend, wholesale, be in business, clinch the deal, close the deal, deal in, put across, put up for sale |
| Notes: | a cell is a small compartment or the basic structural and functional unit of all organisms, while sell means to exchange or deliver for money or its equivalent |
| Antonyms: | buy |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | sell/sell out |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | betray |
| Synonyms: | beguile, break faith, bunk, cross, deceive, delude, disappoint, double-cross*, fail, give away, mislead, stab in the back*, surrender, take in, violate, deliver up, four-flush, give up, play false, rat on, sell down the river |
| Antonyms: | guard, protect |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | assure |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | convince, relieve doubt |
| Synonyms: | bag*, comfort, encourage, hearten, inspire, persuade, reassure, satisfy, sell*, soothe, bet on, sell on |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | bargain |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | negotiate terms of sale or agreement |
| Synonyms: | agree, arrange, barter, buy, compromise, confer, contract, covenant, deal, dicker, haggle, palter, promise, sell, stipulate, trade, traffic, transact, do business, make terms |
| Main Entry: | bring in |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | make a profit |
| Synonyms: | accrue, acquire, bear, bring, cost, earn, fetch, gain, get, gross, make, pay, produce, realize, return, sell, yield, be worth |
| Antonyms: | decrease, lose |
| Main Entry: | cheat |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | trick |
| Synonyms: | artifice, baloney, bill of goods*, chicanery, con, con game, deceit, deception, dirty pool*, dodge, double-dealing*, fake, fix, flimflam, frame, fraud, gyp, hanky-panky*, hoax, humbug, hustle, imposture, jazz, plant, racket, rip-off, scam, sell, sham, shell game, snow job*, spoof, sting, stunt, swindle, trickery, whitewash, wrong, bamboozlement, bunco, cover up, cozening, dirty trick, fast one, fast shuffle, hoaxing, jive, put-on, run around, shady deal |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | commercialize |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | prepare for saleability |
| Synonyms: | advertise, cheapen, degrade, depreciate, lessen, lower, market, sell, develop as business, make bring returns, make marketable, make pay, make profitable, make saleable |
| Main Entry: | convince |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | gain the confidence of |
| Synonyms: | argue into, assure, brainwash, bring around, bring home to, bring to reason, change, demonstrate, draw, effect, establish, get, hook*, induce, make a believer, overcome, persuade, prevail upon, prompt, prove, put across, refute, satisfy, sell one on, sell*, sway, talk into, turn, twist one's arm, win over |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | counterfeit |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | fake, forgery |
| Synonyms: | actor, bogus*, bum, copy, deceit, deception, dummy, facsimile, fraud, gyp, hoax, humbug, imitation, imposture, phony, pseudo, reproduction, sell*, sham, junque, put-on, simulacrum |
| Antonyms: | reality, real thing |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | cross |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | betray, hinder |
| Synonyms: | backtalk, block, buck, cramp, crimp, deny, double-cross, flummox, foil, foul up*, frustrate, impede, interfere, obstruct, oppose, resist, sell*, sell out*, snafu*, stab in the back*, stonewall*, stump, stymie, take on, thwart, bollix, crab, have bone to pick, knock props out, louse up, take wind out of sails |
| Antonyms: | abet, aid, assist, help |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | deal |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | do business |
| Synonyms: | bargain, barter, bicker, dicker*, handle, negotiate, sell, stock, swap, trade, traffic, treat, buy and sell, hammer out deal, horse trade, knock down price, work out deal |
| Antonyms: | deny, refuse |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | deceit |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | particular type of trick, misleading |
| Synonyms: | artifice, blind, cheat, chicanery, crocodile tears*, deception, dirty work*, duplicity, fake, feint, flimflam*, fraud, hoax, humbug, imposture, misrepresentation, pretense, ruse, sell, sham, shift, smoke and mirrors*, snow job*, soft soap*, spoof, stratagem, subterfuge, sweet talk*, swindle, trick, whitewash*, wile, dirty trick, fraudulence, sellout |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | deceive |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | mislead; be dishonest |
| Synonyms: | bamboozle*, beat, beguile, betray, bilk, burn, cheat, circumvent, clip, con, cozen, defraud, delude, disappoint, double-cross, dupe, ensnare, entrap, fake, falsify, fleece, fool, gouge, gull, hoax, hoodwink, hook*, humbug, outwit, put on, rob, scam, screw, sell, skin, swindle, take advantage of, take in, trick, victimize, beat out of, buffalo, cross up, impose upon, lead on, play joke on, pull fast one, suck in, take for, take for ride, take to cleaners |
| Antonyms: | be honest |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | dispose of |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | throw away |
| Synonyms: | bestow, chuck*, deep six, destroy, discard, dump, eighty-six*, eliminate, get rid of, give, jettison, junk*, kiss*, relinquish, scrap, sell, transfer, unload, adios, file in circular file, kiss off*, make over, part with |
| Antonyms: | hold, keep, retain |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | double-cross |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | to deceive or betray someone |
| Synonyms: | beguile, betray, bluff, cheat, con, cross, deceive, defraud, dupe, hoodwink*, humbug*, juggle, mislead, scam, sell, sell out*, sell out, split, stab in the back, swindle, take in, trick, two-time*, two-time, double deal, four-flush, illude, sell down the river |
| Antonyms: | be open, tell truth |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | effect |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | carry out, accomplish |
| Synonyms: | achieve, actualize, actuate, begin, bring about, bring off, bring on, buy, carry through, cause, complete, conceive, conclude, consummate, create, do a number, do one's thing, do the job, do the trick, do to a T, draw on, effectuate, enact, enforce, execute, fulfill, generate, get across, get to, give rise to, implement, induce, initiate, invoke, make, make it, make waves, perform, procure, produce, pull it off, put across, realize, render, secure, sell, turn out, turn the trick, unzip, yield |
| Antonyms: | fail, forget, ignore, neglect, overlook |
| Main Entry: | fetch |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | go get, bring in |
| Synonyms: | back, bear, bring, buck, call for, carry, conduct, convey, deliver, earn, elicit, escort, get, go for, gun, heel, lead, lug*, make, obtain, pack, produce, realize, retrieve, ride, schlepp*, sell, shoulder*, transport, truck*, yield, be sold for, bring back, bring to, draw forth, give rise to, piggyback, sell for, tote |
| Antonyms: | free, let go |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | flatter |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | compliment excessively |
| Synonyms: | adulate, blandish, bootlick*, brownnose*, build up*, butter up*, cajole, charm, con, court, fawn*, glorify, grovel, humor, inveigle, jolly, massage, oil*, praise, salve, sell, snow*, soften*, stroke, toady*, wheedle, beslaver, cater to, get next to, lay it on thick, overpraise, play up to, rub the right way, soft-soap, spread it on, suck up to, sweet-talk, sweeten up, work on, work over |
| Antonyms: | belittle, castigate, condemn, criticize, denounce, insult, offend |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | fraud |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | trickery, deception |
| Synonyms: | artifice, blackmail, cheat, chicanery, con, craft*, deceit, double-dealing*, duplicity, extortion, fake, flimflam*, graft, guile, hanky-panky*, hoax, hocus-pocus*, hustle*, imposture, line, misrepresentation, racket, scam, sell, shakedown*, sham*, skunk*, smoke*, song*, song and dance*, sting, string, swindle, treachery, bamboozlement, barratry, chicane, dupery, duping, fast one, fast shuffle, fourberie, fraudulence, hoodwinking, sharp practice, spuriousness, swindling |
| Antonyms: | fairness, honesty, justice |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | give |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | contribute, supply, transfer |
| Synonyms: | accord, administer, allow, award, bequeath, bestow, cede, come across, commit, confer, consign, convey, deed, deliver, dish out*, dispense, dispose of, dole out, donate, endow, entrust, furnish, gift, grant, hand down, hand out, hand over, lease, pass out, permit, present, provide, relinquish, remit, sell, shell out*, subsidize, tip, transmit, turn over, vouchsafe, will, ante up, fork over, heap upon, lavish upon, lay upon, let have, make over*, parcel out, part with, pass down, pony up, throw in |
| Antonyms: | hold, keep, take |
* = informal/non-formal usage
Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition
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