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# seller

«seller» in Mova's school dictionary: **a person or shop that sells things for money** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 4 sentences of Mova's corpora that use it.

### part of speech

noun (seller, sellers)

### meaning for a pupil

1) A seller is a person or shop that sells things for money. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/seller/#m1)

2) A best seller is a book or thing that very many people buy. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/seller/#m2)

3) A good seller is a thing that sells well. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/seller/#m3)

### sense 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 →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/seller/#x1)
- The seller charges $2 per melon. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/seller/#x2)
- A flower seller sold 36 roses. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/seller/#x3)
- How much money did the seller make? [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/seller/#x4)
- The ice-cream seller rings a bell as he drives down the street. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/seller/#x5)
- The book became a best seller in a month. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/seller/#x6)
- The seller gave me my change and a smile. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/seller/#x7)
- Always check that an online seller is real before you pay. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/seller/#x8)
- Let someone find the plum-seller at once and bring him to me! [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/seller/#x9)

### 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 the corpora

- [Some door-to-door sellers are scams, so say no politely and close the door or fetch a grown-up.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/117-neighbours-deliveries-and-heating/12/)
- [Pets from bad sellers are often ill, and every kind of animal needs different care.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/205-pet-care-food-and-responsibility/10/)
- [Market sellers often say a rounded price out loud, so it is worth doing the sum yourself.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/money/11-prices-and-change-at-the-till/14/)
- [So the merchants and sellers of all kind of ware lodged without Jerusalem once or twice.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/jps/NEH.426/)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «seller» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/seller/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.