Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- transitive verb To surpass (another) in an amount sold.
- transitive verb To outdo (another) in selling.
from The Century Dictionary.
- To exceed in value or worth; excel.
- To exceed in amount of sales; sell better or more than.
- To sell for more than.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- transitive verb To exceed in amount of sales; to sell more than.
- transitive verb To exceed in the price of selling; to fetch more than; to exceed in value.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- verb To
sell more than the others.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- verb be sold more often than other, similar products
- verb sell more than others
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Examples
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Will Obama, yes, we can cola in a bottle not a can despite the name outsell John McCain soda made with pure patriotic spirit.
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Will Obama, yes, we can cola in a bottle not a can despite the name outsell John McCain soda made with pure patriotic spirit.
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I understand they're updated hourly and with sales of a single copy can jump up thousands of places ... only to subside gradually as other titles outsell it during any given hour.
The Highfield Mole Michael Allen 2005
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Wait untill the Balloon Boy's family comes out with their memoirs, I'm sure that one will far outsell Palin.
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How Jed, or anyone, can believe that this mess of a book will outsell the President's memoir is beyond me.
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As far as I know, fantasy in general still tends to outsell most other varieties of speculative fiction (there are exceptions, of course – individual sf writers who have sales many fantasy authors, including yours truly, can only dream of).
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There can't be many writers in the genre who outsell Iain Banks, and although his work is often dark, the Culture represents a positive spin on technological development and its fusion with liberal social attitudes.
MIND MELD: Why is Genre Fiction Bleak and What Can Be Done About It? 2009
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Now the MacBook Air is a solid player in Apple's laptop lineup its laptops outsell its desktops by about 3:1 - but it's going to be challenged in the market by "ultrabooks" which will make the MacBook Air look quite ordinary.
Apple working on ARM port for Mac OS X: will Macbook Airs see it first? 2012
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'Soon a Chinese ink painting is going to outsell Picasso.'
The China Factor Kelly Crow 2011
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"Someday soon a Chinese ink painting is going to outsell Picasso," said Joe Lin-Hill , an emerging-markets professor at Sotheby's Institute of Art, a graduate school run by an affiliate of the auction house.
The China Factor Kelly Crow 2011
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