reˈsell, v.
(riː-)
[re- 5 a.]
To sell again.
| 1574 Galway Arch. in 10th Rep. Hist. MSS. Comm. App. V. 424 Fleash..to be sold and bought at the first hand only without to shell or reshyll it again. 1755 N. Magens Insurances I. 401 [They] cannot know what Profit or Loss they are to have on what they have so bought untill they resell. 1771 Burrow Rep. III. 1921 The Defendant..had bought Goods at an Auction, which were..put up again and resold. 1816 Scott Antiq. iii, Osborne resold this..windfall to Dr. Askew for sixty guineas. 1863 Fawcett Pol. Econ. i. iii. 16 The company has commenced reselling the land to its original proprietors. |
Hence reˈseller.
| 1896 Daily News 28 Jan. 8/7 For American mixed [maize] re-sellers are asking more money. |