noun [usuallysing.]
1 a play, concert, etc. for which all the tickets have been sold:
Next week's final looks like being a sell-out. * a sell-out tour
2 a situation in which sb betrays a person or group who trusted them, by not doing sth that they promised to do, or by doing sth that they promised not to do:
The workers see the deal as a union sell-out to management.
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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.
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