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fire sales

fire sales is the plural of fire sale.

Meaning of fire sale

Noun

fire sale (plural fire sales)

  1. (idiomatic) A clearance sale at greatly reduced prices, often at losses.
    • By the following year, Lehman’s enormous holdings in subprime loans were all but wiped out, and Bush was enlisted to see if he could engineer a fire sale of some of the bank’s empire of debt to the Mexican billionaire Carlos Slim.2015, Chris Lehmann, ‘The Candidates’, London Review of Books, volume 37, number 12

Questions about fire sales

What is fire sales the plural of?
Fire sales is the plural of fire sale.

Words near fire sales in the dictionary

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  8. fire scars
  9. fire science
  10. fire screen
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