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English word

sell

A1Frequent NGSL-1
UK /sel/US /sel/
verb

to give something to somebody in exchange for money

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We built that up, and then we had the opportunity to sell to Compaq in early '99

Elon Musk's 2003 Stanford University Entrepreneurial Thought Leaders Lecture

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Of you out there in the audience today with such creativity—and our industry needs you—fourth this truth never changes: software sells hardware; people buy game systems to play the games.

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