sale
/seːl/
sale noun: an exchange of goods or services for currency or credit. Also the ellipsis of discount sale.
Noun (1)
sale (countable and uncountable, plural sales)
- An exchange of goods or services for currency or credit.
- He celebrated after the sale of company.
- The act of putting up for auction to the highest bidder.
Noun (2)
sale (plural sales)
- A hall.
Proper noun capitalized: Sale
Sale
Also used as
sale is also the ellipsis of discount sale.
sale meaning in Hindi, Tamil, Marathi and Urdu
sale in Hindi
- exchange of goods or services for currency or credit
- विक्रय vikray, बिक्री bikrī, फ़रोख़्त faroxt, फरोख्त pharokht
sale in Tamil
- விற்பனை
sale in Marathi
- विक्री
sale in Urdu
- exchange of goods or services for currency or credit
- بِکْری bikrī, فَروخْت faroxt, بَیع bai'
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- sale in Bengali
- বিক্রয় bikroẏ
- sale in Telugu
- అమ్మకము ammakamu
- sale in Malayalam
- വിൽപ്പന, വില്പന
- sale in Kannada
- ಮಾರಾಟ
- sale in Punjabi
- ਵਿਕਰੀ
- sale in Gujarati
- વેચાણ
- sale in Odia
- ବିକ୍ରି, ବିକ୍ରଯ଼
- sale in Pashto
- خرڅلاو xarślāw
- sale in Tagalog
- pagbili, kamurahan
- sale in Arabic
- بَيْع bayʕ, تخفيض taḵfīḍ, مُزَايَدَة muzāyada
- sale in Malay
- jualan, penjualan
- sale in Indonesian
- penjualan
- sale in Thai
- การขาย gaan-kǎai
- sale in Vietnamese
- sự bán, sự hạ giá
Examples of sale in a sentence
- I’ve got three complete sets of these trading cards for sale, plus a few dozen odds.
- A 12-hour clock system; an antique clock sale; Acme is a clock manufacturer.
- Don't miss our November sale — it's your last chance to save big before Christmas!
Synonyms of sale
Antonyms
Forms of sale
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Origin of sale
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”).
From Middle English sale, sal, from Old English sæl (“room, hall, castle”), from Proto-Germanic *salą (“house, hall”), from Proto-Indo-European *sel- (“home, dwelling, village”). Cognate with West Frisian seal, Dutch zaal, German Saal, Swedish sal, Icelandic salur, Lithuanian sala (“village”). Doublet of sala and salle. Related also to salon, saloon.
From Old English sealh (“willow tree”).
Words formed from sale
- aftersale
- bake sale
- bargain and sale
- barn sale
- bill of sale
- blowout sale
- boot sale
- bring-and-buy sale
- car boot sale
- Cinderella sale
- conquest sale
- contract of sale
- crowdsale
- days sales outstanding
- distressed sale
- distress sale
- drive sale
- e-sales
- estate sale
- fire sale
- fire-sale
- first sale doctrine
- first-sale doctrine
- flash sale
- forced sale
- for sale
- garage sale
- goods and sales tax
- gross sales
- intersale
- in the sales
- jumble sale
- net sales
- nonsale
- off-sale
- on sale
- oversale
- plate sale
- point of sale
- portsale
- postsale
- presale
- raffle sale
- resale
- roup sale
- rummage sale
- saleability
- saleable
- sale and leaseback
- salegoer
- sale-goer
- sale journal
- sale-leaseback
- saleless
- sale of work
- sale on approval
- sale or return
- sale price
- sale-proof
- saleroom
Phrases with sale
- tag sale
- sale yard
- seat sale
- wash sale
- yard sale
- sale yards
- short sale
- white sale
- sale prices
- up for sale
- closing sale
- bills of sale
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Questions about sale
- What does sale mean?
- Sale means an exchange of goods or services for currency or credit.
- What is sale in Hindi?
- Sale in Hindi is विक्रय (vikray), बिक्री (bikrī), फ़रोख़्त (faroxt). See Sale meaning in Hindi.
- What part of speech is sale?
- Sale can be a noun or a proper noun.
- How do you pronounce sale?
- Sale is pronounced /seːl/.
- What is the plural of sale?
- The plural of sale is sales.
Words near sale in the dictionary
Source and license
Adapted from Wiktionary: sale (page history and authors); Sale (page history and authors); sale (Tamil, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); sale (Marathi, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); sale (Malayalam, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); sale (Kannada, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); sale (Punjabi, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); sale (Gujarati, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); sale (Odia, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.
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