if a shop sells out of something, it sells all that it has so that there is no more available
to deliberately sell all the goods in your business, especially because you are closing the business permanently
to do something that shows you no longer have the same moral principles that you used to have
used about goods
But without the reef, people are forced to sell out at rock-bottom prices to pay their debts; a year later Brismand moves in.
I went to get some bread, but the shop had sold out.
On a hot day, we can sell out of ice cream in an hour.
Some fans thought she’d sold out to mainstream pop music.
The tickets had sold out within a few short hours.
Why are you prepared to sell out your colleagues just to save Graham and Carver?
`The difference is I voiced my opinions, I didn't resort to treason and sell out my colleagues to the CIA.
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There is no origin for this phrasal verb
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