resale
pronunciation
How to pronounce resale in British English: UK [ˈri:seɪl]
How to pronounce resale in American English: US [ˈriˌsel, riˈsel]
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- Noun:
- the selling of something purchased
Word Origin
- resale (n.)
- 1620s, from re- "back, again" + sale (n.).
Example
- 1. The case-shiller index of home resale prices , for instance , has become the benchmark for u.s. house prices .
- 2. Luckily for them , works that have been anointed by the tate command more credibility and a premium upon resale .
- 3. Some also encourage customers to send in items for recycling that it assesses as having no resale value by providing free shipping labels .
- 4. In a government-sanctioned scheme , hundreds of thousands of residents in rural henan province sold their blood for eventual resale to international pharmaceutical companies .
- 5. They can even make a reasonable guess about how well-used ( or damaged ) a device is , which can affect its resale value .