Definition of Oversells

1. Verb. (third-person singular of oversell) ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Oversells

1. oversell [v] - See also: oversell

Lexicographical Neighbors of Oversells

oversee
overseeable
overseed
overseeded
overseeding
overseeds
overseeing
overseen
overseer
overseers
overseership
overseerships
oversees
oversell
overselling
oversells
oversend
oversensing
oversensitive
oversensitiveness
oversensitivity
oversentimental
oversentimentality
oversentimentally
overserious
overseriously
overserve
overserved
overserves
overservice

Literary usage of Oversells

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. New Collection Methods: A Systematic Treatment of the Place of Collections by Edward Hall Gardner (1918)
"The insurance company which oversells is punished by lapses, the book company which oversells finds its collection lengthy and expensive and is obliged to ..."

2. Report by American Library Association War service (1919)
"The New York Office is a clearing house for new books and gift books for all camps, a dispatch office for shipment of books and magazines oversells, ..."

3. Reports of Cases Argued and Determined in the Court of King's Bench: With by John Leycester Adolphus, Great Britain Court of King's Bench (1837)
"... sheriff under an alleged execution the general matter in cvi- against the goods of one Read. I lie defendants, as by statute he oversells of the poor ..."

4. Pennsylvania Archives by Pennsylvania Dept. of Public Instruction, Pennsylvania State Library (1876)
"But you see the Misconduct of a Mr. Todd oversells the designs of a good Government, & I am Confident the Exertions of a Majority of most Spirited Virtuous ..."

5. Correspondence of William Pitt, when Secretary of State, with Colonial by William Pitt, Gertrude Selwyn Kimball, Great Britain Foreign Office (1906)
"... well if they continue steady, but that is precarious; As the least jealousy, or smallest disgust, oversells a months Civility, and good usage at once. ..."

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