Sale
name, noun ·Common ·Middle school level
Definitions
- 1 An exchange of goods or services for currency or credit. countable, uncountable
"He celebrated after the sale of company."
- 2 A hall. obsolete
- 3 a particular instance of selling wordnet
- 4 Ellipsis of discount sale (“the sale of goods at reduced prices”). abbreviation, alt-of, countable, ellipsis, uncountable
"They are having a clearance sale: 50% off."
- 5 the general activity of selling wordnet
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- 6 The act of putting up for auction to the highest bidder. countable, uncountable
- 7 an occasion (usually brief) for buying at specially reduced prices wordnet
- 8 an agreement (or contract) in which property is transferred from the seller (vendor) to the buyer (vendee) for a fixed price in money (paid or agreed to be paid by the buyer) wordnet
- 9 the state of being purchasable; offered or exhibited for selling wordnet
- 1 A town in the Metropolitan Borough of Trafford, Greater Manchester, England, historically in Cheshire (OS grid ref SJ9892).
- 2 A town in the Shire of Wellington, Gippsland, Victoria, Australia, named after Robert Sale.
- 3 A surname.
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More examples"The summer goods are now on sale."
Etymology
From Middle English sale, from Old English sala (“act of selling, sale”), from Old Norse sala (“sale”), from Proto-Germanic *salō (“delivery”), from Proto-Indo-European *selh₁- (“to grab”).
From Middle English sale, sal, from Old English sæl (“room, hall, castle”), from Proto-Germanic *salą (“house, hall”), from Proto-Indo-European *sel- (“home, dwelling, village”). Cognate with West Frisian seal, Dutch zaal, German Saal, Swedish sal, Icelandic salur, Lithuanian sala (“village”). Doublet of sala and salle. Related also to salon, saloon.
From Old English sealh (“willow tree”).
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