Sale Definition

sāl
noun
The act or an instance of selling; exchange of property of any kind, or of services, for an agreed sum of money or other valuable consideration.
Webster's New World
Opportunity to sell or be sold; market.
Webster's New World
The act of offering goods to the highest bidder; auction.
Webster's New World
A special offering of goods at prices lower than usual.
Webster's New World
Receipts in business.
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A town in Greater Manchester, England.

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Other Word Forms of Sale

Noun

Singular:
sale
Plural:
sales

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Origin of Sale

  • From Middle English sale, sal, from Old English sæl (“room, hall, castle"), from Proto-Germanic *salÄ… (“house, hall"), from Proto-Indo-European *sol-, *sel- (“home, dwelling, village"). Cognate with West Frisian seal, Dutch zaal, German Saal, Swedish sal, Icelandic salur, Lithuanian sala (“village"). Related also to salon, saloon.

    From Wiktionary

  • 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 *sel- (“to grab").

    From Wiktionary

  • Middle English from Old English sala from Old Norse

    From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition

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