sell up

See also: sell-up

English

sell up (third-person singular simple present sells up, present participle selling up, simple past and past participle sold up)

(intransitive) To sell one's business or other major asset (such as a home).
Synonym: sell out

Coordinate terms: close up, close down
(transitive, British) To sell all (of the assets of a company or person), in order to reduce its debts or gain liquid money.
Synonym: sell out

Coordinate term: sell off
- 1847 January – 1848 July, William Makepeace Thackeray, chapter 9, in Vanity Fair […], London: Bradbury and Evans […], published 1848, →OCLC:
  […] he was never known to give away a shilling or to do a good action, but was of a pleasant, sly, laughing mood, and would cut his joke and drink his glass with a tenant and sell him up the next day […]
(marking) To upsell.
- 2001, Montrose S. Sommers, James G. Barnes, Fundamentals of marketing, page 438:
  Attracting consumers with a low-priced feature item and then pointing out weaknesses in order to sell up to a more expensive […]
- 2003, H. Eugene Weiss, Chrysler, Ford, Durant and Sloan, page 37:
  He was not going to have salesman ^[sic] sell up to a more expensive and more profitable car that was no better than his Ford.