sale

Meanings

1. 1
   noun

   The act of selling something, or an item that is sold.

   The shop made a big sale to a new customer this morning.

2. 2
   noun

   A time when a shop sells goods at lower prices than usual.

   I bought this coat in the winter sale for half price.

3. 3
   noun

   The general activity or business of selling things.

   The company is trying to boost the sale of its new phones.

4. 4
   noun

   A formal agreement to transfer property to a buyer for an agreed price.

   They signed the sales agreement at the lawyer's office.

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.

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