sale
nounEtymology
From Middle English sale, sal, from Old English sæl (“room, hall, castle”), from Proto-Germanic *salą (“house, hall”), from Proto-Indo-European *sel- (“home, dwelling, village”). Cognate with West Frisian seal, Dutch zaal, German Saal, Swedish sal, Icelandic salur, Lithuanian sala (“village”). Doublet of sala and salle. Related also to salon, saloon.
Definitions
An exchange of goods or services for currency or credit.
- He celebrated after the sale of company.
Ellipsis of discount sale (“the sale of goods at reduced prices”).
- They are having a clearance sale: 50% off.
The act of putting up for auction to the highest bidder.
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A hall.
A town in the Metropolitan Borough of Trafford, Greater Manchester, England, historically…
A town in the Metropolitan Borough of Trafford, Greater Manchester, England, historically in Cheshire (OS grid ref SJ9892).
A town in the Shire of Wellington, Gippsland, Victoria, Australia, named after Robert…
A town in the Shire of Wellington, Gippsland, Victoria, Australia, named after Robert Sale.
A surname.
The neighborhood
- synonymsale
- synonymvend
- synonymvent
- antonympurchase
- neighborpurchase
- neighborsell
- neighbordisposal
- neighborrelinquishment
- neighbortransaction
- neighborsellback
- neighborselling on
- neighbordicker
- neighborroup
- neighborsimony
- neighborvendue
Derived
aftersale, bake sale, bargain and sale, bill of sale, blowout sale, boot sale, bring-and-buy sale, car boot sale, Cinderella sale, conquest sale, contract of sale, crowdsale, days sales outstanding, distressed sale, distress sale, drive sale, e-sales, estate sale, fire sale, fire-sale, first sale doctrine, first-sale doctrine, flash sale, forced sale, for sale, garage sale, goods and sales tax, gross sales, intersale, in the sales, jumble sale, net sales, nonsale, off-sale, on sale, oversale, plate sale, point of sale, portsale, postsale · +57 more
Vish — recursive loop
A definitional loop anchored at sale. Each word in the ring is defined by the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself. Scroll to it and watch.
A definitional loop anchored at sale. Each word in the ring appears in the definition of the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself.
8 hops · closes at sale
curated · pre-corpus. live cycle detection across the full graph is the next major milestone.
sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA