sell off

Meaning

1. 1

   sell sth off

   to sell things cheaply because you want to get rid of them or because you need the money

2. 2

   sell sth off

   to sell all or part of an industry, a company or land

   The Church sold off the land for housing.

In the movies · 6

• I took the liberty of selling off...Mary Reilly1996
• High tech stocks led Friday's fierce sell-off This is really a great wake-up call.Enron: The Smartest Guys in the Room2005
• Now my plan was to stay alive long enough to sell off the dope...GoodFellas1990
• Yeah. And you were going to fucking break it up into pieces and sell it off.The Beekeeper2024
• AND THE WORLD BANK WORK, IS YOU PUT A COUNTRY IN DEBT, AND IT'S SUCH A BIG DEBT IT CAN'T PAY IT, AND THEN YOU OFFER TO REFINANCE THAT DEBT AND PAY EVEN MORE INTEREST, AND YOU DEMAND THIS QUID PRO QUO, WHICH YOU CALL A CONDITIONALITY OR GOOD GOVERNANCE, WHICH MEANS BASICALLY THAT THEY'VE GOT TO SELL OFF THEIR RESOURCES, INCLUDING MANY OF THEIR SOCIAL SERVICES, THEIR UTILITY COMPANIES, THEIR SCHOOL SYSTEMS SOMETIMES, THEIR PENAL SYSTEMS, THEIR INSURANCE SYSTEMS TO FOREIGN CORPORATIONS.Zeitgeist: Addendum2008
• - There's the real money. Build it up, Milk it for all it's worth, then sell it off for a bundle...Tombstone1993

Learn it in full scenes

• Enron: The Smartest Guys in the Room2005
  • Enron's Dabhol Plant in Ruins
  • Fastow Admits Both Sides
  • Skilling Loses It on the Call
• GoodFellas1990
  • Henry Wants to Be a Gangster
  • Young Henry Gets Beaten and Recruited
  • Paulie's Protection Racket

From the same entry

• be sold on
• sell your body
• sell down the river
• sell short
• sell your soul
• go like hot cakes
• sell a pup
• sell on
• sell out
• sell out
• sell out
• sell up