sell

v.

1. To convey for a consideration

   market, vend, auction, dispose of, put up for sale, barter, exchange, trade, bargain, peddle, retail, merchandise, sell at the market, sell on the curb, sell over the counter, sell futures on, contract, wholesale, give title to, give a deed for, put in escrow; see also exchange 2.

   Antonyms buy*, obtain*, get. *

2. To betray

   sell out*, fail*, violate; see betray 1, deceive, disappoint.

sell implies the transferral of ownership of something to another for money to sell books, a house, etc.; barter implies an exchange of goods or services without using money to barter food for clothes; trade, in transitive use, also implies the exchange of articles let's trade neckties, and, intransitively, implies the carrying on of a business in which one buys and sells a specified commodity to trade in wheat; auction implies the public sale of items one by one, each going to the highest of the competing bidders to auction off unclaimed property; vend applies especially to the selling of small articles, as by peddling, coin-operated machine, etc. to vend souvenirs at the parade, vending machines