seller

Everyday

1. A seller is a person or shop that sells things for money. tree →
2. A best seller is a book or thing that very many people buy. tree →
3. A good seller is a thing that sells well. tree →

In the lessons

In maths a seller is a person in a money story: sells at a price, earns money, has goods left. Everyday: a fruit seller at the market, a ticket seller, online sellers. Opposite: buyer. In stories: a street seller, a flower seller.

Examples

• The seller has 50 melons. tree →
• The seller charges $2 per melon. tree →
• A flower seller sold 36 roses. tree →
• How much money did the seller make? tree →
• The ice-cream seller rings a bell as he drives down the street. tree →
• The book became a best seller in a month. tree →
• The seller gave me my change and a smile. tree →
• Always check that an online seller is real before you pay. tree →
• Let someone find the plum-seller at once and bring him to me! tree →

Note

Countable: a seller, sellers. From the verb «sell» + -er. Money earned = price × number sold; things left = start − sold. Trap: the seller gets money while the buyer pays it. Do not confuse «seller» with «cellar» (a room under a house), which sounds the same.

In Jewish tradition

A person who sells goods. In Ezekiel, buyer and seller stand for ordinary trade that will stop.

Interpretation. Ezekiel's words are read as saying that in the day of doom, business will not matter, and sold land will not be recovered.

Examples

• So the merchants and sellers of all kind of ware lodged without Jerusalem once or twice. (Writings NEH.13.20, JPS 1917) tree →
• The time is come, the day draweth near; let not the buyer rejoice, nor the seller mourn; for wrath is upon all the multitude thereof. (Prophets EZK.7.12, JPS 1917) tree →
• For the seller shall not return to that which is sold, although they be yet alive; for the vision is touching the whole multitude thereof, which shall not return; neither shall any stand possessed of the iniquity of his life. (Prophets EZK.7.13, JPS 1917) tree →

Note

Countable: a seller, sellers. From the verb «sell» + -er. Money earned = price × number sold; things left = start − sold. Trap: the seller gets money while the buyer pays it. Do not confuse «seller» with «cellar» (a room under a house), which sounds the same.