resell

verb

re·​sell (ˌ)rē-ˈsel How to pronounce resell (audio)
resold (ˌ)rē-ˈsōld How to pronounce resell (audio) ; reselling

transitive verb

: to sell (something) again
He bought the house with plans to fix it up and resell it.
reseller noun
plural resellers
book/computer/ticket resellers
a value-added reseller
now available for purchase through authorized resellers

Examples of resell in a Sentence

Recent Examples on the Web What about Tower Records? Clayton Solomon’s son, Russell Solomon, started reselling jukebox records out of his father’s drugstore in the early 1940s — founding Tower Records in 1960. Camila Pedrosa, Sacramento Bee, 8 June 2024 The tech giant has hired two of Inflection AI’s co-founders to lead a new unit called Microsoft AI, and reportedly hired a slew of its staff and paid the startup roughly $650 million to resell its technology under a licensing agreement. Rocio Fabbro, Quartz, 6 June 2024 Ticketmaster places all these hurdles on the way to a purchase with an eye toward stopping professional resellers — the networks of scalpers who snap up tickets with the goal of reselling for a profit. Whizy Kim, Vox, 23 May 2024 Fans who buy tickets for the Love Earth Tour through Ticketmaster and can't attend can resell their tickets at the original price using Ticketmaster’s Face Value Exchange. Ed Masley, The Arizona Republic, 27 Apr. 2024 See all Example Sentences for resell 

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Word History

First Known Use

1572, in the meaning defined above

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The first known use of resell was in 1572

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“Resell.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/resell. Accessed 2 Jul. 2024.

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