Suppose you buy something for $100 and sell it off for $150.

He plans to sell off some divisions immediately, for example.

In 2000 the school proposed to sell off the lower part of its playing fields for housing development.

It's investment strategy is to buy companies and then sell them off for a profit.

They never were, and war in 1879 cut their value, many holders selling them off for a pittance.

So they started dividing the land and selling off parts of it for construction.

Were all these purloined plants quickly sold off for cash?

"I can sell off a case of Yanks for ten times that."

The Nasdaq has been selling off for a few weeks, but is still up 5.9 percent for the year.

Family members became wealthy by acquiring land and then selling it off for development.