# sell (economic)

give a product to another for money

- Computed level: L17 (depth in the emergence graph, not abstraction)
- Status: review  ·  Domain: economic  ·  Arena: E5

## Emergence
**Emerges from:** [products](https://emergencemachine.com/tools/lexicon/what-is-the-meaning-of-products.goods), [money](https://emergencemachine.com/tools/lexicon/what-is-the-meaning-of-money.economic), [give](https://emergencemachine.com/tools/lexicon/what-is-the-meaning-of-give.transfer)

**Through:** A product is given to another in exchange for money.

**Novel properties:**
- ownership change
- exchange agreement

## Examples
- In 2023, Apple sold 23 million iPhones in Q4 through its retail and online stores. *(economics)*
- The 1975 garage sale in Los Altos where Steve Jobs and Steve Wozniak sold homemade computer kits. *(everyday life)*
- Nigeria exported 1.4 million barrels of crude oil per day in 2022, receiving payments in US dollars. *(institutions)*

## Used by
- [commercial](https://emergencemachine.com/tools/lexicon/what-is-the-meaning-of-commercial.economic) (L18)

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