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sell up

Phrasal Verb with sell
 
 
/sel/ verb (past tense and past participle sold)

Definition

UK
to sell your house or company in order to go somewhere else or do something else
(Definition of sell up from the Cambridge Learner's Dictionary © Cambridge University Press)

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