resell

verb

re·​sell (ˌ)rē-ˈsel 

resold (ˌ)rē-ˈsōld  ; reselling

transitive verb

: to sell (something) again

He bought the house with plans to fix it up and resell it.

reseller

(ˌ)rē-ˈse-lər 

noun

plural resellers

book/computer/ticket resellers

a value-added reseller

now available for purchase through authorized resellers

Examples of resell in a Sentence

Recent Examples on the Web

The City of Pittsburgh requires an annual ticket-reseller license for anyone reselling tickets connected to events at PNC Park, PPG Paints Arena or Acrisure Stadium, still referred to as Heinz Field in the city code. — Gabby Sartori, USA Today, 8 Aug. 2026

The particular challenge for SpaceX, which entered the AI market in February through its merger with Musk's xAI, is that reselling AI capacity for short-term revenue is a strategy that's detached from the company's broader ambitions. — Ari Levy,lora Kolodny, CNBC, 5 Aug. 2026

In some cases, participants are encouraged to earn money by recruiting new customers or reselling the same course, creating an affiliate structure in which marketing the program becomes more lucrative than the cryptocurrency instruction itself. — Zachary Bynum, CBS News, 5 Aug. 2026

In fact, Chinese refiners actually started reselling crude oil in global markets to earn money to make up for reduced activity in Chinese refineries. — Amy Myers Jaffe, The Conversation, 4 Aug. 2026

Word History

First Known Use

1572, in the meaning defined above

Rhymes for resell

• barbell
• bedwell
• befell
• bluebell
• bombshell
• bridewell
• capelle
• cartel
• carvel
• clamshell
• cogswell
• compel