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sale

  • noun
  • sāl

An exchange of goods or services for currency or credit.

Example

“He celebrated after the sale of company.”

Other meanings

  1. The act of putting up for auction to the highest bidder.

Example sentences

  • “Those ones aren't for sale.”

    Tatoeba · ddnktr · CC0

Word history

From Old Norse "sala".

Where this comes from

This definition is adapted from “sale” on Wiktionary, by its contributors; example sentences are from Tatoeba, credited to their authors above, published under CC BY-SA 4.0. This page is published under the same licence.