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oversell

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oversell /ˌoʊvɚˈsɛl/ verb
oversells; oversold /-ˈsoʊld/ ; /ˌoʊvɚˈsoʊld/ ; overselling
oversell
/ˌoʊvɚˈsɛl/
verb
oversells; oversold /-ˈsoʊld/ ; /ˌoʊvɚˈsoʊld/ ; overselling
Learner's definition of OVERSELL
[+ object]
1 
: to accept payment or reservations for more rooms, seats, tickets, etc., than you have available（房间、座位、票等）超售，过多销售，空头销售
2 
: to praise (something or someone) too much过分赞誉；吹嘘
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oversell

verb

over·​sell ˌō-vər-ˈsel How to pronounce oversell (audio)
oversold ˌō-vər-ˈsōld How to pronounce oversell (audio) ; overselling

transitive verb

1
a
: to sell too much or too many to
b
: to sell too much or too many of
2
: to make excessive claims for
oversell
ˈō-vər-ˌsel How to pronounce oversell (audio)
noun

Example Sentences

Hotels routinely oversell their rooms, expecting a small percentage of no-shows. Don't oversell yourself in the job interview. The salesman oversold the features on the new model.
Recent Examples on the Web Regulators have long accepted the airlines’ argument that fares will be more expensive if the carriers can never oversell flights, so the practice isn’t going away. Josh Zumbrun, WSJ, 29 July 2022 Nonetheless, scientific articles and the books scientists write to popularize their findings too often oversell the research in ways that invite racist misreading, which other scientists are only too willing to provide. Emily Klancher Merchant, STAT, 23 June 2022 The trouble comes when scientists, and journal editors, oversell these findings, said Eric Turkheimer, a psychologist at the University of Virginia. Megan Molteni, STAT, 24 May 2022 Still, Sturgis Rally seemed to oversell its own adventurousness. New York Times, 27 Oct. 2021 Some of the researchers were sometimes prone to oversell themselves—or in a sense to exploit the exploiters. Joseph Bernstein, Harper's Magazine, 17 Aug. 2021 Ilario is broken up about Walden’s death, but Damon doesn’t oversell the waterworks. Tim Grierson, Vulture, 30 July 2021 The resurgence of the meme stocks could be attributed to a drop in the price of bitcoin, which may have prompted investors to oversell AMC and GameStop. Naeem Aslam, Forbes, 1 June 2021 The seller has substantial informational superiority, coupled with an incentive to oversell to naive consumers—a toxic combination. James Breiding, Scientific American, 16 June 2021 See More

Word History

First Known Use

1576, in the meaning defined at sense 1a

Time Traveler
The first known use of oversell was in 1576
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