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To be sold or for sale

sell

verb

if something sells, people buy it

fetch

verb

to be sold for a particular amount of money, especially at an auction (=sale where goods are sold to the person offering the most money)

retail

verb

to be sold directly to the public for their own use

go for

to be sold for a particular amount of money

come

verb

to be sold or produced

go

verb

to be sold

outsell

verb

to be bought by more people than something else is

sell out

used about goods

go/sell like hot cakes

to be sold very quickly in large quantities

come/go under the hammer

to be sold at an auction (=a public sale in which objects are sold to the person who offers the most money)

caxirola

a percussion instrument used by football fans which makes a rattling sound when shaken

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to learn small pieces of information by asking questions or watching or listening carefully

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pierce the corporate veil

… the decision to treat the rights and duties of a company as being the same as the rights and duties of its shareholders

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