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seller

one who sells services, food, merchandise, etc.: She was the real estate company’s top seller.
Not to be confused with:
cellar – a storage room, wholly or partly underground: They have a wine cellar to keep wine at an appropriate temperature.
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sell·er

 (sĕl′ər)
n.
1. One that sells; a vendor.
2. An item that sells in a certain way: This washing machine has been an excellent seller.
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seller

(ˈsɛlə)
n
1. a person who sells
2. an article to be sold: this item is always a good seller.
3. (Horse Racing) short for selling race
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sell•er

(ˈsɛl ər)

n.
1. a person who sells.
2. an article considered with reference to its sales: a poor seller.
[1150–1200]
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ThesaurusAntonymsRelated WordsSynonymsLegend:
Noun1.seller - someone who promotes or exchanges goods or services for moneyseller - someone who promotes or exchanges goods or services for money
booking clerk, ticket agent - someone who sells tickets (e.g., theater seats or travel accommodations)
cosmetician - someone who sells or applies cosmetics
flower girl - a woman who sells flowers in the street
fruiterer - a person who sells fruit
cheap-jack, huckster - a seller of shoddy goods
merchandiser, merchant - a businessperson engaged in retail trade
hawker, packman, peddler, pedlar, pitchman - someone who travels about selling his wares (as on the streets or at carnivals)
selling agent - someone who sells goods (on commission) for others
dealer - a seller of illicit goods; "a dealer in stolen goods"
underseller - a seller that sells at a lower price than others do; "he went all over town looking for undersellers"
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seller

noun dealer, merchant, vendor, agent, representative, rep, retailer, traveller, supplier, shopkeeper, purveyor, tradesman, salesman or saleswoman a flower seller
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seller

noun
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Translations
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seller

[ˈseləʳ] N
1. (= person who sells) → vendedor(a) m/f; (= dealer) → comerciante mf (of en) seller's marketmercado m favorable al vendedor
2. (= item) a good sellerun artículo que se vende bien
Collins Spanish Dictionary - Complete and Unabridged 8th Edition 2005 © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1971, 1988 © HarperCollins Publishers 1992, 1993, 1996, 1997, 2000, 2003, 2005

seller

[ˈsɛlər] nvendeur/euse m/f, marchand(e) m/fseller's market (COMMERCE) nmarché m à la hausseselling point n
[product] → argument m de vente
(= advantage) → atout mselling price nprix m de ventesell-off selloff [ˈsɛlɒf] n [business, company, state industry] → liquidation f
Collins English/French Electronic Resource. © HarperCollins Publishers 2005

seller

n
Verkäufer(in) m(f); you should take faulty goods back to the sellerdu solltest fehlerhafte Ware (zum Händler) zurückbringen
(= thing sold) big sellerVerkaufsschlager m; this book is a good/slow sellerdas Buch verkauft sich gut/schlecht; it’s the best/worst seller we’ve haddas ist der bestgehende/am schlechtesten gehende Artikel, den wir je hatten
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seller

[ˈsɛləʳ] n
a.venditore/trice
b. (product) this item's a good sellerquesto articolo (si) vende molto
Collins Italian Dictionary 1st Edition © HarperCollins Publishers 1995
References in classic literature ?
As it was I really think we behaved with sufficient meekness, and after thirty four or five years for reflection I am still of a very modest mind about my share of the book, in spite of the price it bears in the book- seller's catalogue.
She argued, indeed, very learnedly in support of his opinion; and concluded with saying, if Tom had been guilty of any fault, she must confess her own son appeared to be equally culpable; for that she could see no difference between the buyer and the seller; both of whom were alike to be driven out of the temple.
In a commercial transaction of the retail order much depends on the seller's engaging and amiable aspect.
He came out again with an opera-glass in his hand, walked a few paces on, and stopped to look at a bill of the opera placed outside a music- seller's shop.
The seller (a French horse-dealer resident in Brussels) had returned to Belgium immediately on completing the negotiations.
As for the chopping of bargains, when a man buys not to hold but to sell over again, that commonly grindeth double, both upon the seller, and upon the buyer.
This struck me as an evident custom, and a logical one--the seller, who receives, the money, to wet a piece of it in the establishment where the trade was consummated.
They want that dirty ice cream, that they do know for certain," she thought, looking at two boys stopping an ice cream seller, who took a barrel off his head and began wiping his perspiring face with a towel.
The physician with his theory, rather obtained from than corrected by experiments on the human constitution; the pious, self- denying, laborious, and ill-paid missionary; the half-educated, litigious, envious, and disreputable lawyer, with his counterpoise, a brother of the profession, of better origin and of better character; the shiftless, bargaining, discontented seller of his “betterments;” the plausible carpenter, and most of the others, are more familiar to all who have ever dwelt in a new country.
Unlike Reginald Sellers, who had a studio in the same building, and sometimes dropped in to drink her coffee and pour out his troubles, he did not attribute his non-success to any malice or stupidity on the part of the public.
The perfume from the great clusters of yellow daffodils and violets floated up from the flower sellers' baskets below; the fresh, warm air seemed to bring him poignant memories of crocus-starred lawns, of trim beds of hyacinths, of the song of birds, of the perfume of drooping lilac.
The buyers and sellers, too, many of them, looked not much better off than the poor beasts they were bargaining about.