Usually means: Promote more than is warranted.
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We found 22 dictionaries that define the word oversell:

General (19 matching dictionaries)
  1. oversell: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
  2. oversell: Merriam-Webster
  3. oversell: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  4. oversell: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  5. oversell: Collins English Dictionary
  6. oversell: Wordnik
  7. oversell: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. oversell: Wiktionary
  9. oversell: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. oversell: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. oversell: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. Oversell, oversell: Dictionary.com
  13. Oversell: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  14. oversell: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  15. Oversell: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  16. oversell: FreeDictionary.org
  17. oversell: TheFreeDictionary.com

Business (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. Travel Industry Dictionary (No longer online)
  2. oversell: Financial dictionary
  3. BusinessDictionary.com (No longer online)

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Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
verb:  (transitive) To agree to sell more of something than one can supply.
verb:  (transitive) To be too eager in attempting to sell something.
verb:  (transitive) To praise something to excess.
verb:  (transitive, obsolete) To sell for a higher price than; to exceed in sale price.

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