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(in Britain) the illegal practice of sending unrequested goods to householders followed by a bill for the price of the goods if they do not return them

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Words nearby inertia selling

inertial observer, inertial platform, inertial system, inertial upper stage, inertia-reel seat belt, inertia selling, inescapable, in escrow, inescutcheon, in esse, in essence

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How to use inertia selling in a sentence

There is just no way of selling this picture with an innocent defense like, “she just asked for a snap.”
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Eventually, she did—more or less—reinventing herself as Nicki Minaj and becoming a platinum-selling hip-hop superstar.
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He was not selling “loosies” that day, no cigarettes were found on his person, and thus there was no probable cause in play.
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Even the legendary 1980s televisions show Dallas is back on the air, selling its twenty-first century brand of Texas bravado.
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The process of co-opting black music and selling it back to the adoring public in whiteface is as American as apple pie.
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At this period it brought enormous prices, the finest selling at from fifteen to eighteen shillings per pound.
Tobacco; Its History, Varieties, Culture, Manufacture and Commerce|E. R. Billings.
But for the most part even industry and endowment were powerless against the inertia of custom and the dead-weight of environment.
The Unsolved Riddle of Social Justice|Stephen Leacock
To learn this, he went on the road himself appointing agents and selling to bookstores.
The Homesteader|Oscar Micheaux
It means enough not to satisfy them, and to leave the selling price of the things made at the point of profit.
The Unsolved Riddle of Social Justice|Stephen Leacock
I have no means of paying them except by selling my estate, and therefore it must go.
Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, No. CCCXXXIX. January, 1844. Vol. LV.|Various