| 单词 | sell something ↔ off |
| 释义 | → See Verb tableRelated topics: Stocks & sharesˈsell-off noun [countable] 1. BFS British English the sale of an industry that the government owns, to private companies or other people 〔国有企业的〕出售2. American English the sale of a lot of stocks or shares, which makes the price decrease 〔证券或股票的〕抛售Examples from the Corpussell-off• Unless safeguards are introduced, sell-offs will occur.• With the Treasury market sell-off, buyers saw higher-yielding mortgagebacked bonds as a safe harbor, traders said.• Has any account been taken of the record of those advisers in past sell-offs?• Yesterday, as the sell-off gained momentum, the stock plunged 31 / 4 to close at 281 / 4 on Nasdaq.• With no new junk deals sold yet this year, demand outweighed pressure from the sell-off in Treasurys, traders added.• Would the Minister find it acceptable if the same sort of windfall profits were made by the beneficiaries of the sell-offs?• The sell-offs had a dramatic effect because some of the businesses were loss-makers which dragged down profits last time.From Longman Business Dictionarysell something → off phrasal verb [transitive]COMMERCE to sell all or most of an industry, company, business etc, usually at a low priceHe plans to break the company up and sell it off as several independent businesses.The privatization of state enterprises will be delayed until they can be sold off at a better price. → see also sell-off → sell→ See Verb tablesell-offˈsell-off noun [countable]FINANCE1a situation in which many investors sell their bonds, shares etc, often very quicklyIn an otherwise calm market, there were steep sell-offs in shares.2when a business, company etc is sold to another company6,000 metal union workers occupied two shipbuilding companies to protest at their planned sell-offs.ˈsell-off nounChineseSyllable Business the an sale of industry that the government Corpus owns, |
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