peddle
pronunciation
How to pronounce peddle in British English:
UK [ˈpedl]
How to pronounce peddle in American English:
US [ˈpedl]
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- Verb:
- sell or offer for sale from place to place
Word Origin
- peddle (v.)
- "to retail," 1837 in modern use, a colloquial back-formation from peddler. Related: Peddled; peddling.
Example
- 1. Are there any escort services that don 't peddle sex ?
- 2. Cash-strapped european banks are also eager to peddle their private-equity investments .
- 3. Those who have to peddle goods or search for casual labour are equally well placed .
- 4. I do not mean to be alarmist , nor to peddle the facile notion of history repeating itself .
- 5. But the insidious culture that allowed wall street firms to peddle securities of dubious value to pension funds and charitable endowments remains largely in place .