[VN] [oftenpassive]
1 to say that sb/sth is better than they really are:
He has a tendency to oversell himself.
2 (business) to sell too much or more of sth than is available:
The seats on the plane were oversold.
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This is a English–English dictionary entry.
Sourced from Main Dictionary in Lughet's collection.
This word also appears under other sources in Lughet's collection — see the list below.
This entry for oversell is sourced from Main Dictionary, one of the dictionaries and corpora merged into Lughet.
Does oversell appear elsewhere on Lughet?
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