## Meanings
1. The act of selling something, or an item that is sold.
2. A time when a shop sells goods at lower prices than usual.
3. The general activity or business of selling things.
4. A formal agreement to transfer property to a buyer for an agreed price.

## Examples
- The shop made a big sale to a new customer this morning.
- I bought this coat in the winter sale for half price.
- The company is trying to boost the sale of its new phones.
- They signed the sales agreement at the lawyer's office.

## Synonyms
- vend
- vent

## Antonyms
- purchase

## Derived Forms
- aftersale
- crowdsale
- e-sales
- fire-sale
- intersale
- nonsale
- off-sale
- oversale
- portsale
- postsale
- presale
- resale

## Related Forms
- purchase
- sell

## Roots and Affixes
- Root: sale
- Root: sæl
- Root: *salą
- Root: *sel-

## Etymology
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.

## AI Etymology
Sale comes 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. Modern senses include the act of selling something, or an item that is sold. and a time when a shop sells goods at lower prices than usual.. The wider word family includes derivatives such as aftersale, crowdsale, e-sales, fire-sale, intersale, and nonsale and related forms such as purchase and sell.

## Topics
- Shopping & Services
- Register & Style

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