: a usually sudden sharp decline in security prices accompanied by increased volume of trading
sold off; selling off; sells off
: to suffer a drop in prices
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Pia Singh, CNBC, 3 Feb. 2025
Booth either has to try to find a sucker who’ll eat a bad contract or accept a sell-off that makes his team worse right smack dab in the middle of a contention window.
—Sean Keeler, The Denver Post, 3 Feb. 2025
Tom Tapp, Deadline, 6 Feb. 2025
In the first half of the year, crypto had been selling off, so there was uncertainty around how much PayPal could be impacted.
—Jeff Nash, CNBC, 4 Feb. 2025
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Noun
Stocks are coming off of a volatile trading session, in which the major averages made a striking turnaround after an initial global sell-off.
—Pia Singh, CNBC, 3 Feb. 2025
Booth either has to try to find a sucker who’ll eat a bad contract or accept a sell-off that makes his team worse right smack dab in the middle of a contention window.
—Sean Keeler, The Denver Post, 3 Feb. 2025
Verb
Also, Mizuhara did not sell off the baseball cards to pay his gambling debts to co-defendant Mathew Bowyer, who has also pleaded guilty and was scheduled to be sentenced April 4, prosecutors said.
—Tom Tapp, Deadline, 6 Feb. 2025
In the first half of the year, crypto had been selling off, so there was uncertainty around how much PayPal could be impacted.
—Jeff Nash, CNBC, 4 Feb. 2025
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“Sell-off.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/sell-off. Accessed 14 Feb. 2025.
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