Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
- n. The exchange of goods or services for an amount of money or its equivalent; the act of selling.
- n. An instance of selling.
- n. An opportunity for selling or being sold; demand.
- n. Availability for purchase: a store where pets are for sale.
- n. A selling of property to the highest bidder; an auction.
- n. A special disposal of goods at lowered prices: coats on sale this week.
- n. Activities involved in selling goods or services.
- n. Gross receipts.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
- n. An exchange of goods or services for currency or credit.
- n. this sense?) A particular opportunity for a sale.
- n. The sale of goods at reduced prices.
- n. The act of putting up for auction to the highest bidder.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
- n. See 1st sallow.
- n. The act of selling; the transfer of property, or a contract to transfer the ownership of property, from one person to another for a valuable consideration, or for a price in money.
- n. Opportunity of selling; demand; market.
- n. Public disposal to the highest bidder, or exposure of goods in market; auction.
from The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. The act of selling; also, a specific act or a continuous process of selling; the exchange or disposal of a commodity, right, property, or whatever may be the subject of bargain, for a price agreed on and generally payable in money, as distinguished from barter; the transfer of all right and property in a thing for a price to be paid in money.
- n. In law, a contract for the transfer of property from one person to another, for a valuable consideration.
- n. Opportunity to sell; demand; market.
- n. Disposal by auction or public outcry.
- n. The price.
- n. A hall.
- n. Willow; osier; also, a basket-like net.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- n. a particular instance of selling
- n. the general activity of selling
- n. 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)
- n. an occasion (usually brief) for buying at specially reduced prices
- n. the state of being purchasable; offered or exhibited for selling
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
Examples
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C] If it has power to prohibit the sale _without_ the soil, it can prohibit the sale _with_ it; and if it can prohibit the _sale_ as property, it can prohibit the _holding_ as property.
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A] If it has power to prohibit the sale _without_ the soil, it can prohibit the sale _with_ it; and if it can prohibit the _sale_ as property, it can prohibit the _holding_ as property.
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To Cliff Notes it, Fitzpatrick's ex-girlfriend told him a neighbor was having a tag sale that included a rather large organ a few years ago.
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Q: Whenever I bring something home from a tag sale my husband starts in with “Where'd you get that goo-gaw?”
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Walter serendipitously stumbled into the trove of Josiah Freeman's glass plate studio photographs at a tag sale on Nantucket.
Bernard Starr: Stop Kvetching. Self-Publishing Is Here To Stay -- And Vaulting Ahead
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Her mother had found the Boston rocker at a tag sale and had it refinished for the pair after Helen dared say her news out loud.
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I focus on my desk chair—an old spindly thing I found at a tag sale and re-covered with fish-pattern fabric.
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We were wearing these lumberjack-looking beaver-skin hats, the sort you could buy at a tag sale for nothing.
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I had thought the book would be passed between friends or sisters or mothers and daughters; that my sisters, the unlucky-in-love, unhappy-in-their-own-skin big girls, would find it in the library or on the shelf at a rented summer house, or at a tag sale or a flea market; that they would read it and be comforted.
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Be-ism arrived on the scene in 2005, when Jane Myer, a bank teller from South Africa—divorced, down on her luck, fifty pounds overweight, and unfortunately permed—came across an antique self-help pamphlet at whatever they call a tag sale in Afrikaans.
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