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Definition of clearing sale in English: clearing salenoun Australian, NZ An auction of the contents of a rural property, held after the property itself has been sold. the farm's 180-gallon tank will go under the hammer in this weekend's clearing sale Example sentencesExamples - A farm clearing sale is a little like a wake.
- Locals expect the clearing sale to be the biggest the town has hosted.
- The clearing sale is for the estate of a Mr Williams, who died last November.
- The basic equipment was a tractor, plough, grubber, drill, and a set of harrows—and bought second-hand at clearing sales, they were not too expensive.
- Much of my childhood was spent trailing the footsteps of my father among the bidders, browsers, and serious buyers at auctions and rural clearing sales.
- Clearing sales often follow a death or a bankruptcy, and the neighbours attend as a mark of respect and support, as well as to pick up some useful tools or equipment.
- It's one of 14 tractors listed at a huge clearing sale in western Victoria.
- In those days, free grog was the understood thing at big clearing sales.
- Hundreds turned out for this clearing sale.
- It was a difficult separation to achieve, but after long weeks of setting up for the clearing sale, I found I was impatient for the life at the farm to end.
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