sale

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.

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”).

Synonyms

selling

sell

demand

disposal

sales

bargain

commerce

trade

marketing

cut-rate sale

sales event

business

present sale

vendition

for sale

on sale

purchase

🛍️

buy

🛍️

distribution

market

sales agreement

fair

exhaustion

gloom

gross receipts

indolence

in stock

lading

launch

lifelessness

melancholia

melancholy

occasion

opportunity

placement

realization

release

resale

retail

riot

sadness

saloon

scope

selloff

sell off

shop

sorrow

special price

store

subtraction

Sentences

Everywhere there were stalls with items for sale .

" They're not for sale ," he said .