sale
Listen:Concise Oxford English Dictionary © 2008 Oxford University Press:
sale/seɪl/
▶noun
- 1 the exchange of a commodity for money; the process of selling something.
■ (sales) a quantity or amount sold.
- 2 (sales) the activity or profession of selling.
- 3 a period in which goods are disposed of at reduced prices.
- 4 a public or charitable event at which goods are sold.
■ a public auction.
– phrases
for (or on) sale offered for purchase.
sale or return Brit. an arrangement by which a purchaser takes a quantity of goods with the right to return any surplus without payment.
for (or on) sale offered for purchase.
sale or return Brit. an arrangement by which a purchaser takes a quantity of goods with the right to return any surplus without payment.
– origin OE sala, from ON sala, of Gmc origin.
'sale' also found in these Oxford entries:
advice
- asking price
- auction
- bargain
- barratry
- bazaar
- bill of sale
- block
- bring-and-buy sale
- bulk
- capital gain
- car boot sale
- cash register
- catalogue
- complete
- completion
- contract note
- cry
- cut-price
- disposal
- dry
- dump
- duty
- EFTPOS
- EPOS
- export
- extension
- fair
- fancy goods
- fete
- fire sale
- float
- flog
- flotation
- franchise
- gallery
- garage sale
- gunrunner
- hammer
- happy
- hawk
- homologate
- invisible
- issue
- jumble
- jumble sale
- knock
- land agent
- licensed
- lot
