sell off

1. 1.

   get rid of by selling, usually at reduced prices

   “The store sold off the surplus merchandise”

   Broadersell

Questions about sell off

What does sell off mean?

sell off means "get rid of by selling, usually at reduced prices".

Is sell off a common word?

sell off is banded "Uncommon" — turns up in careful writing rather than conversation. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.