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sale definition

sale (sāl)

noun

  1. the act of selling; exchange of property of any kind, or of services, for an agreed sum of money or other valuable consideration
  2. opportunity to sell or be sold; market
  3. the act of offering goods to the highest bidder; auction
  4. a special offering of goods at prices lower than usual
  5. receipts in business
  6. the work, department, etc. of selling a job in sales

Etymology: ME < OE sala < ON: for IE base see sell

sale Idioms

for sale

to be sold; offered for purchase
also up for sale

on sale

for sale, esp. at a price lower than usual

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Used by arrangement with John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

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sale Synonyms

sale

n.

  1. The act of selling

    commerce, business, traffic, exchange, barter, commercial enterprise, marketing, vending, trade; see also economics.

  2. An individual instance of selling

    deal, transaction, negotiation, turnover, trade, purchase, auction, disposal; see also buying, selling 1.

  3. An organized effort to promote unusual selling

    bargain sale, clearance, stock reduction, fire sale, unloading, dumping, remnant sale, going out of business sale, bankruptcy sale, yard sale, lawn sale, tag sale, garage sale, closeout*, sellout*.

for<strong> or </strong>on<strong> or </strong>up for sale

on the market, available, up for sale, on sale, offered for purchase, to be sold, marketable, saleable, advertised, listed, selling, on auction, under the hammer, on the auction block, on the block.

on sale

marked down, reduced, at a bargain, cut, at a cut rate, discounted; see also cheap 1, reduced 2.


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sale Usage Examples

Converse of object

  • boost: Sales promotions and the prevailing cold weather boosted the sales in these categories, it said.

Adjective modifier

  • retail: I just did some reading on retail sales in Britain.

Modifies a noun

  • team: Whether you are in business on your own, or employ a small sales team, this is a ' must ' read.

Noun used with modifier

  • boot: Consider doing a car boot sale or donating to charity.

Preposition: of

  • alcohol: Any sale of alcohol at an event requires a license now.

Preposition: by

  • auction: They were going through their house looking for items to put up for sale by auction.
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Soon I was alone and began cursing the bloody bible because there were no titles in itöalthough I found the source of practically every good title you ever heard of. But the boys, principally Kipling, had been there before me and swiped all the good ones so I called the book Men Without Women hoping it would have a large sale among the fairies and old Vassar Girls.

-Hemingway, Ernest Millar

If some books are deemed most baneful and their sale forbid, how, then, with deadlier facts, not dreams of doting men? Those whom books will hurt will not be proof against events. Events, not books, should be forbid.

-Melville, Herman

We are becoming an economic colony. America isup for sale.One percent of Japan's manufacturing base is foreign-owned; 2 per cent of Germany's is; 3 per cent of France's.Ours is18 per cent and growing rapidly.

-Tsongas, Paul Efthemios

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