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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Sale \Sale\, noun See 1st {Sallow}. [Obs.] --Spenser.
From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Sale \Sale\, noun [Icel. sala, sal, akin to E. sell. See {Sell}, verb (used with an object)]
1. 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.
2. Opportunity of selling; demand; market.
They shall have ready sale for them. --Spenser.
3. Public disposal to the highest bidder, or exposure of goods in market; auction. --Sir W. Temple.
{Bill of sale}. See under {Bill}.
{Of sale}, {On sale}, {For sale}, to be bought or sold; offered to purchasers; in the market.
{To set to sale}, to offer for sale; to put up for purchase; to make merchandise of. [Obs.] --Milton.
From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:
sale
noun
1: the general activity of selling; "they tried to boost sales"; "laws limit the sale of handguns"
2: a particular instance of selling; "he has just made his first sale"; "they had to complete the sale before the banks closed"
3: the state of being purchasable; offered or exhibited for selling; "you'll find vitamin C for sale at most pharmacies"; "the new line of cars will soon be on sale"
4: an occasion (usually brief) for buying at specially reduced prices; "they held a sale to reduce their inventory"; "I got some great bargains at their annual sale" [syn: {cut-rate sale}, {sales event}]
5: 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); "the salesman faxed the sales agreement to his home office" [syn: {sales agreement}]
From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:
62 Moby Thesaurus words for "sale": abalienation, alienation, amortization, amortizement, assignation, assignment, available, bargain and sale, barter, bazaar, bequeathal, buying, cession, closing-out sale, conferment, conferral, consignation, consignment, conveyance, conveyancing, deeding, deliverance, delivery, demise, disposal, disposition, distress sale, enfeoffment, exchange, flea market, garage sale, giving, going-out-of-business sale, in stock, inventory-clearance sale, lease and release, marked down, marketing, on the block, on the market, purchase, purchasing, rummage sale, selling, settlement, settling, surrender, tax sale, trade, trading, traffic, trafficking, transaction, transfer, transference, transmission, transmittal, up for sale, vending, vesting, white elephant sale, yard sale
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