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(of a restaurant) to provide a takeout or home delivery meal / takeout (business) / takeout (meal)
HSK 2
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  *賣* | 賣* | *賣
to sell / to betray / to spare no effort / to show off or flaunt
HSK 2
to sell off (one's property)
(vulgar) your mom's a prostitute (from Sichuan pronunciation of 媽賣屄|妈卖屄)
lit. to fry and sell on the spot / fig. (of fresh graduates) to apply the still-fresh knowledge gained in school
lit. to hang a sheep's head while selling dog meat (idiom) / fig. to cheat / dishonest advertising / wicked deeds carried out under banner of virtue
auctioneer / auction house
to sell / to peddle / to traffic
HSK 7-9
to buy and sell
HSK 5
to offer for sale; to sell / to sell out; to betray
HSK 7-9
prostitute; hooker
hypermarket / large warehouse-like self-service retail store
specialty store
HSK 7-9
to auction / auction sale / to sell at a reduced price
HSK 7-9
to sell
to buy and sell / to do business / to trade / to deal
human trafficking / to abduct and sell / to kidnap and sell
to show off / to make a display of
HSK 7-9
food delivery person
buying and selling at fair prices
seller (in contracts)
to sell / to reach (a price in an auction)
monopoly / exclusive right to trade
vending machine
to exert flirtatious allure / to entice coquettishly
to sell strongly; to be in great demand
every potter praises his own pot (idiom) / all one's geese are swans
to work hard / to do one's very best / to throw oneself into the task at hand
promotional event / sale
to peddle / to hawk (pirate goods)
every potter praises his own pot (idiom) / all one's geese are swans
if an official does not put the people first, he might as well go home and sell sweet potatoes
to curry favor by showing obeisance (idiom)
hot-selling property
shumai (shao mai) steamed dumpling / also written 燒麥|烧麦
bazaar
to sell illicitly / to bootleg / to sell privately
hawking / street vending
(in storytelling) to keep listeners in suspense / (in general) to keep people on tenterhooks
to show deference to sb by obliging them (or by obliging sb associated with them)
to hawk (one's wares) / to peddle
traitor
to consign for sale
selling point
selling price
to sing for a living
auction / CL: 場|场
to sell wholesale
to sell short (finance)
to sell cheaply / sacrifice / low price / discount sale
(idiom) to flaunt one's seniority; to rely on one's age or length of experience to control or belittle others
furniture store / furniture mall
outward appearance / demeanor
to sell at a big discount
to resell at a profit / to speculate
HSK 7-9
lit. to sell hot food freshly cooked; fig. to teach what one has just learned / enthusiasm of the new convert
to play the fool (idiom) / to feign madness
to sell off
GreTai Securities Market (GTSM)
to mark down (the price of goods) / to sell off cheap
what has (he) got up (his) sleeve? / what's going on?
to be sold out
to betray
appealing; attractive (esp. to consumers)
a one-off, short-sighted deal / a one-shot, all-out attempt
kiosk / snack counter / retail department or section inside a larger business
(big) store
to feign an opening in order to hoodwink the opponent (in a fight, combat etc)
to resell
to work tirelessly; to give one's all; to slave away / to throw away one's life; to sacrifice oneself (usu. for an unworthy cause)
to overbook (e.g. airline seats) / to oversell
clearance sale / fire sale
treason
to make money by selling sth
to have a sale / sale
to hold a charity bazaar; to sell goods for a good cause
trafficking in human beings
The Old Charcoal Seller, poem by Tang poet Bai Juyi 白居易
to prostitute oneself / to sell oneself into slavery
to sell meat / (slang) to sell sex
Yomiuri Shimbun (Japanese newspaper)
seller
to make a living doing manual labor / to give sth all one's got
to press-gang sb and sell into slavery
to flaunt a skill / to give display to one's ability / to show off a feat / to vaunt one's tricks
butcher
to have benefited from sth but pretend otherwise / to claim to be hard done by, even though one has benefited
to do trade as a fortune teller
(slang) to act cute
to force sb to buy or sell / to trade using coercion
to resell at a profit
to sell anything / to sell everything
purchase and sale; transaction / shop; store
seller
to be willing to sacrifice everything one has (idiom)
to be sold out / to be out of stock
to speculate / to play the market / (fig.) to sell hot air / to swindle people by posing as a reputable operator
(idiom) to grant government positions or official titles in exchange for bribes
to behave ingratiatingly

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