sale

Meaning

  1. (countable, uncountable) An exchange of goods or services for currency or credit.
  2. (abbreviation, alt-of, countable, ellipsis, uncountable) Ellipsis of discount sale (“the sale of goods at reduced prices”).
  3. (countable, uncountable) The act of putting up for auction to the highest bidder.

Synonyms

selling
B1
sell
A2
demand
B2
disposal
C1
sales
B2
bargain
B2
commerce
C2
trade
B1
marketing
C1

cut-rate sale

sales event

business
A1

present sale

vendition
for sale
on sale
purchase
C1
🛍️
buy
A1
🛍️
distribution
C1
market
B1

sales agreement

fair
A2
exhaustion
C2
gloom
C2

gross receipts

indolence

in stock

lading
launch
B2
lifelessness
melancholia
melancholy
C2
occasion
B2
opportunity
B1
placement
C2
realization
C2
release
B1
resale
46k
retail
C2
riot
C1
sadness
C1
saloon
C1
scope
C1

selloff

sell off
shop
A2
sorrow
B2

special price

store
A2
subtraction
Translations

vente
vendita
Verkauf
venta
venda
verkoop

πώληση

svendita

venditio

بيع
satış
Ausverkauf
venda
liquidazione
Frequency

B1
Pronounced as (IPA)
/seɪl/
Etymology

Inherited from Middle English
sale
Inherited from Old English
sala
In summary

From Middle English sale, from Old English sala (“act of selling, sale”), from Old Norse sala (“sale”), from Proto-Germanic *salō (“delivery”), from Proto-Indo-European *selh₁- (“to grab”).

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