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Webster's 1828 Dictionary

SALE, n. [The primary sense of sell, is simply to deliver or cause to pass from one person to another.]
1. The act of selling; the exchange of a commodity for money of equivalent value. The exchange of one commodity for another is barter or permutation, and sale differs from barter only in the nature of the equivalent given.
2. Vent; power of selling; market. He went to market, but found no sale for his goods.
3. Auction; public sale to the highest bidder, or exposure of goods in market. [Little used.]
4. State of being venal, or of being offered to bribery; as, to set the liberty of a state to sale.
5. A wicker basket.
SALE, a. Sold; bought; as opposed to homemade. [Colloquial.]

WordNet (r) 3.0 (2005)

n
1: a particular instance of selling; "he has just made his first sale"; "they had to complete the sale before the banks closed"
2: the general activity of selling; "they tried to boost sales"; "laws limit the sale of handguns"
3: an occasion (usually brief) for buying at specially reduced prices; "they held a sale to reduce their inventory"; "I got some great bargains at their annual sale" [syn: sale, cut- rate sale, sales event]
4: the state of being purchasable; offered or exhibited for selling; "you'll find vitamin C for sale at most pharmacies"; "the new line of cars will soon be on sale"
5: an agreement (or contract) in which property is transferred from the seller (vendor) to the buyer (vendee) for a fixed price in money (paid or agreed to be paid by the buyer); "the salesman faxed the sales agreement to his home office" [syn: sale, sales agreement]

Merriam Webster's

noun Etymology: Middle English, from Old English sala; akin to Old High German sala transfer, Old English sellan to sell — more at sell Date: before 12th century 1. the act of selling; specifically the transfer of ownership of and title to property from one person to another for a price 2. a. opportunity of selling or being sold ; demand b. distribution by selling 3. public disposal to the highest bidder ; auction 4. a selling of goods at bargain prices 5. plural a. operations and activities involved in promoting and selling goods or services <vice-president in charge of sales> b. gross receipts

Oxford Reference Dictionary

n. 1 the exchange of a commodity for money etc.; an act or instance of selling. 2 the amount sold (the sales were enormous). 3 the rapid disposal of goods at reduced prices for a period esp. at the end of a season etc. 4 a an event at which goods are sold. b a public auction. Phrases and idioms: on (or for) sale offered for purchase. sale of work an event where goods made by parishioners etc. are sold for charity. sale or return an arrangement by which a purchaser takes a quantity of goods with the right of returning surplus goods without payment. sale-ring a circle of buyers at an auction. sales clerk US a salesman or saleswoman in a shop. sales department etc. the section of a firm concerned with selling as opposed to manufacturing or dispatching goods. sales engineer a salesperson with technical knowledge of the goods and their market. sales resistance the opposition or apathy of a prospective customer etc. to be overcome by salesmanship. sales talk persuasive talk to promote the sale of goods or the acceptance of an idea etc. sales tax a tax on sales or on the receipts from sales. Etymology: OE sala f. ON

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

Sale Sale, n. See 1st Sallow. [Obs.] --Spenser.

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

Sale Sale, n. [Icel. sala, sal, akin to E. sell. See Sell, v. t.] 1. The act of selling; the transfer of property, or a contract to transfer the ownership of property, from one person to another for a valuable consideration, or for a price in money. 2. Opportunity of selling; demand; market. They shall have ready sale for them. --Spenser. 3. Public disposal to the highest bidder, or exposure of goods in market; auction. --Sir W. Temple. Bill of sale. See under Bill. Of sale, On sale, For sale, to be bought or sold; offered to purchasers; in the market. To set to sale, to offer for sale; to put up for purchase; to make merchandise of. [Obs.] --Milton.

Collin's Cobuild Dictionary

(sales) Frequency: The word is one of the 700 most common words in English. 1. The sale of goods is the act of selling them for money. Efforts were made to limit the sale of alcohol. ...a proposed arms sale to Saudi Arabia... N-SING: usu with supp 2. The sales of a product are the quantity of it that is sold. The newspaper has sales of 1.72 million. ...retail sales figures. N-PLURAL 3. The part of a company that deals with sales deals with selling the company's products. Until 1983 he worked in sales and marketing... N-PLURAL 4. A sale is an occasion when a shop sells things at less than their normal price. ...a pair of jeans bought half-price in a sale... N-COUNT 5. A sale is an event when goods are sold to the person who offers the highest price. The painting was bought by dealers at the Christie's sale. = auction N-COUNT 6. see also car boot sale, jumble sale 7. If something is for sale, it is being offered to people to buy. His former home is for sale at £495,000... PHRASE 8. Products that are on sale can be bought in shops. (mainly BRIT) English textbooks and dictionaries are on sale everywhere... PHRASE 9. If products in a shop are on sale, they can be bought for less than their normal price. (AM) He bought a sports jacket on sale at Gowings Men's Store. PHRASE 10. If a property or company is up for sale, its owner is trying to sell it. The castle has been put up for sale. PHRASE

International Standard Bible Encyclopedia

sal (mimkar): The word is used: (1) in the sense of the transaction (Le 25:50); (2) in the sense of the limit of time involved in the transaction (Le 25:27); (3) in the sense of the price paid in the transaction (De 18:8), though it may be the same as (1) above.

Soule's Dictionary of English Synonyms

n. 1. Demand, market, vent, opportunity to sell. 2. Auction.

Moby Thesaurus

abalienation, alienation, amortization, amortizement, assignation, assignment, available, bargain and sale, barter, bazaar, bequeathal, buying, cession, closing-out sale, conferment, conferral, consignation, consignment, conveyance, conveyancing, deeding, deliverance, delivery, demise, disposal, disposition, distress sale, enfeoffment, exchange, flea market, garage sale, giving, going-out-of-business sale, in stock, inventory-clearance sale, lease and release, marked down, marketing, on the block, on the market, purchase, purchasing, rummage sale, selling, settlement, settling, surrender, tax sale, trade, trading, traffic, trafficking, transaction, transfer, transference, transmission, transmittal, up for sale, vending, vesting, white elephant sale, yard sale