Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun The exchange of goods or services for an amount of money or its equivalent; the act of selling.
- noun A selling of property to the highest bidder; an auction.
- noun An offer or arrangement in which goods are sold at a discount.
- noun The business or activity of selling goods or services.
- noun The number of items sold or the amount of money received for a number of items sold.
- idiom (for sale) Available to customers.
- idiom (on sale) Available to customers.
- idiom (on sale) Available to customers at a special discount.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A hall.
- noun Willow; osier; also, a basket-like net.
- noun 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.
- noun In law, a contract for the transfer of property from one person to another, for a valuable consideration.
- noun Opportunity to sell; demand; market.
- noun Disposal by auction or public outcry.
- noun The price.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun obsolete See 1st
sallow . - noun 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.
- noun Opportunity of selling; demand; market.
- noun Public disposal to the highest bidder, or exposure of goods in market; auction.
- noun See under
Bill . - noun to be bought or sold; offered to purchasers; in the market.
- noun [Obs.] to offer for sale; to put up for purchase; to make merchandise of.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun An
exchange of goods or services for currency or credit. - noun this sense?) A particular opportunity for a sale.
- noun The sale of goods at reduced prices.
- noun The act of putting up for auction to the highest bidder.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun a particular instance of selling
- noun the general activity of selling
- noun 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)
- noun an occasion (usually brief) for buying at specially reduced prices
- noun the state of being purchasable; offered or exhibited for selling
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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