Meanings
present singular third person supersells · participle present superselling · participle past supersold · past supersold
- transitiveTo sell in great quantities.
The day of superselling and all that sort of thing is past. A good article does not need supersalesmanship, while a poor article can no longer be moved by any kind of salesmanship.
2003, Samuel Crowther, A Basis for Stability, page 2821 more example
We are now a nation growing up with our earliest instincts'^([sic]) being "adjusted" to a technological food manufacture — to respond to good-looking dead food is right, and to turn away from this supersold garbage is to encourage criticism.
1978, Graham Kerr, The love feast, page 81
Origin
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