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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)

  1. An exchange of goods or services for currency or credit.
    • He celebrated after the sale of company.
  2. The act of putting up for auction to the highest bidder.

Noun (2)

sale (plural sales)

  1. (obsolete) A hall.

Proper noun capitalized: Sale

Sale

  1. A town in the Metropolitan Borough of Trafford, Greater Manchester, England, historically in Cheshire (OS grid ref SJ9892).
  2. A town in the Shire of Wellington, Gippsland, Victoria, Australia, named after Robert Sale.
  3. A surname.

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'
More languagesFewer languages
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!

All 40 example sentences with sale

Synonyms of sale

Antonyms

Forms of sale

pluralsales

Plural of sale: sales

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

Phrases with sale

7 more phrasesFewer phrases

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

  1. Saldiernas
  2. Saldino-Mainzer disease
  3. Saldivar
  4. Saldivars
  5. Saldus
  6. sale
  7. sale and leaseback
  8. sale journal
  9. sale journals
  10. sale of work
  11. sale on approval

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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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