Usually means: Betraying principles for personal gain.
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We found 27 dictionaries that define the word sell out:

General (18 matching dictionaries)
  1. sell out: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
  2. sell out: Merriam-Webster
  3. sell out: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  4. sell-out, sell out: Collins English Dictionary
  5. sell out: Vocabulary.com
  6. Sell-Out, Sell-out, sell-out: Wordnik
  7. sell-out, sell (sb) out, sell out: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. sell-out, sell out: Wiktionary
  9. sell-out, sell out: Dictionary.com
  10. sell-out: Online Etymology Dictionary
  11. Sell Out (Reel Big Fish song), Sell out, The Sell Out (The Avengers), The Sell Out (film): Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  12. sell out: Rhymezone
  13. sell-out: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  14. sell out: FreeDictionary.org
  15. sell out: Mnemonic Dictionary
  16. sell out: TheFreeDictionary.com

Business (6 matching dictionaries)
  1. MoneyGlossary.com (No longer online)
  2. INVESTORWORDS (No longer online)
  3. Sell out: Bloomberg Financial Glossary
  4. Sell-Out: Investopedia
  5. sell out: Legal dictionary
  6. sell out: Financial dictionary

Miscellaneous (1 matching dictionary)
  1. sell out: Idioms

Slang (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. sell out: Green’s Dictionary of Slang
  2. Totally Unofficial Rap (No longer online)

(Note: See sell_outs as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (sell out)

verb:  To sell all of a product that is in stock.
verb:  (intransitive) To abandon or betray one's principles to seek profit or other personal advantage; to abandon or betray one's supporters through this change.
verb:  (transitive) To betray (a person), usually a close friend or family member, for personal gain.
verb:  To sell one's business (with a connotative emphasis on entirety and finality).
verb:  (figurative) To commit or abandon oneself entirely (to a cause, a team, etc.).
verb:  (historical, military) To sell one's commission.
verb:  (intransitive, archaic) To hurry out.

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