sell

To transfer goods or provide services in exchange for money.

She sold her old car very quickly.

I'll sell you three books for a hundred dollars.

To be sold.

This old stock will never sell.

The corn sold for a good price.

To promote (a product or service) although not being paid in any direct way or at all.

Howard: You're gonna feel terrible when I'm in a wheelchair. Which, by the way, would fit easily in the back of this award-winning minivan. Bernadette: Fine, we'll go to the E.R. Just stop selling me on the van. Howard: You're right. It sells itself.

To promote (a particular viewpoint).

My boss is very old-fashioned and I'm having a lot of trouble selling the idea of working at home occasionally.

To betray for money or other things.

An act of selling; sale.

Now the easiest sell in traveldom is made even easier.

The promotion of an idea for acceptance.

This is going to be a tough sell.

An easy task.

An imposition, a cheat; a hoax; a disappointment; anything occasioning a loss of pride or dignity.

"Of course a miracle may happen, and you may be a great painter, but you must confess the chances are a million to one against it. It'll be an awful sell if at the end you have to acknowledge you've made a hash of it."

What a sell for Lena!

A seat or stool.

The tyrant proud frown’d from his loftie cell, [...].

A saddle.

turning to that place, in which whyleare / He left his loftie steed with golden sell, / And goodly gorgeous barbes, him found not theare [...].