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An example use of sell in a speech by a native speaker of british english:
“… it as a toy or sell it in toy stores …”
To sell something is to exchange it for money or goods.
the word sell occurs in english on average 77.1 times per one million words; this frequency warrants it to be in the study list for B1 level of language mastery according to CEFR, the Common European Framework of Reference.
it is hard to perfectly classify words into specific topics since each word can have many context of its use, but our machine-learning models believe that sell can be often used in the following areas:
1) business and work;
2) people, society, and culture;