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firesale

firesale is the alternative spelling 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

Forms of firesale

pluralfiresales

Questions about firesale

What is firesale the alternative spelling of?
Firesale is the alternative spelling of fire sale.

Words near firesale in the dictionary

  1. fires the starting gun
  2. fires up
  3. firesafe
  4. firesafeness
  5. firesafety
  6. firesale
  7. firesales
  8. firesand
  9. firescaping
  10. firescorched
  11. firescreen

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