{
  "id": "sell.economic",
  "term": "sell",
  "sense": "economic",
  "pos": "verb",
  "status": "review",
  "level": 17,
  "arena": "E5",
  "domain": "economic",
  "style": null,
  "definition": "give a product to another for money",
  "folk_gloss": null,
  "emergence": {
    "components": [
      "products.goods",
      "money.economic",
      "give.transfer"
    ],
    "interaction": "A product is given to another in exchange for money.",
    "novel_properties": [
      "ownership change",
      "exchange agreement"
    ]
  },
  "examples": [
    {
      "text": "In 2023, Apple sold 23 million iPhones in Q4 through its retail and online stores.",
      "domain": "economics"
    },
    {
      "text": "The 1975 garage sale in Los Altos where Steve Jobs and Steve Wozniak sold homemade computer kits.",
      "domain": "everyday life"
    },
    {
      "text": "Nigeria exported 1.4 million barrels of crude oil per day in 2022, receiving payments in US dollars.",
      "domain": "institutions"
    }
  ],
  "relations": [
    {
      "id": "give.transfer",
      "type": "is-a",
      "note": "sell is a kind of give"
    }
  ],
  "used_by": [
    "commercial.economic"
  ],
  "forms": [
    "sell",
    "selling",
    "sells",
    "sold"
  ],
  "closed": true,
  "provenance": {
    "author": "openrouter:openai/gpt-oss-120b",
    "date": "2026-07-29",
    "confidence": 0.6
  },
  "canonical": "https://emergencemachine.com/tools/lexicon/what-is-the-meaning-of-sell.economic"
}