salenoun
uk/seɪl/us/seɪl/sale noun (SELL)
B2 [ C or U ] an act of exchanging something for money:
A2 available to buy:
the department of a company that organizes and does the selling of the company's products or services:
B2 the number of products sold:
[ C ] an occasion when things are sold in order to make money:
[ C ] an auction (= public sale):
available to buy in a shop:
a system by which goods are supplied to shopsand can be returned if they are not sold within a particular period of time:
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- The government passed a law to restrict the sale of guns.
- Eleven million bottles of water had to be withdrawn from sale due to a health scare.
- Proceeds from the sale of the cards go to local charities.
- We'll split the proceeds from the sale.
- We found a buyer for our house, but then the sale fell through.
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Selling
- auction
- bake sale
- bundle
- chain of production
- divest
- export
- pile
- pile it high and sell it cheap idiom
- price yourself out of the market idiom
- privatize
- purvey
- realizable
- realization
- serve
- shift
- supersize
- telesales
- tout
- undercharge
- unsold
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sale noun (CHEAP PRICE)
A2 [ C ] an occasion when goods are sold at a lower price than usual:
reduced in price:
More examples
- I got some shoes cheap in the sale.
- Don't miss out on the fantastic bargains in our summer sale.
- She picked up some real bargains in the sale.
- The summer sales are now on.
- I went sale shopping.
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Shops & auctions
- army disposals store
- army surplus store
- army-navy store
- art gallery
- auction
- department store
- discount store
- discount warehouse
- druggist
- drugstore
- megastore
- milk bar
- newsagent
- newsstand
- off-licence
- superstore
- swap meet
- sweet shop
- tabletop sale
- tag sale
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