sell up

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

1. (intransitive) To sell one's business or other major asset (such as a home)
2. (transitive, Britain) To sell all (of the assets of a company or person), in order to reduce its debts or gain liquid money.
   • '1848, William Makepeace Thackeray, Vanity Fair, Chapter 9:

     ... 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 ...

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