sale
pronunciation
How to pronounce sale in British English:
UK [seɪl]
How to pronounce sale in American English:
US [seɪl]
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- Noun:
- the general activity of selling
- a particular instance of selling
- the state of being purchasable; offered or exhibited for selling
- an occasion (usually brief) for buying at specially reduced prices
- an agreement (or contract) in which property is transferred from the seller (vendor) to the buyer (vendee) for a fixed price in money (paid or agreed to be paid by the buyer)
Word Origin
- sale
- sale: [11] Sale was borrowed from Old Norse sala. This came from the same prehistoric Germanic base, *sal-, that produced English sell. The word’s specific application to the ‘selling of goods at lower-than-normal prices’ did not emerge until the 1860s.=> sell
- sale (n.)
- late Old English sala "a sale, act of selling," from a Scandinavian source such as Old Norse sala "sale," from Proto-Germanic *salo (cognates: Old High German sala, Swedish salu, Danish salg), from PIE root *sal- (3) "to grasp, take." Sense of "a selling of shop goods at lower prices than usual" first appeared 1866. Sales tax attested by 1886. Sales associate by 1946. Sales representative is from 1910.
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Example
- 1. How do you submit your app for sale ?
- 2. Tax the marketing and sale of unhealthful foods .
- 3. The sale comes amid rising consumption of cognac in china .
- 4. It is due to go on sale around the world on december 1 .
- 5. But the ultimate reason that threw the sale in doubt may be quite simple .