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noun

Sale n.

The act of selling; the transfer of property, or a contract to transfer the ownership of property, from one person to another for a valuable consideration, or for a price in money.

Opportunity of selling; demand; market. "They shall have ready sale for them."

Public disposal to the highest bidder, or exposure of goods in market; auction.

Bill of sale. See under Bill.

Of sale, On sale, For sale, to be bought or sold; offered to purchasers; in the market.

To set to sale, to offer for sale; to put up for purchase; to make merchandise of. (Obs.)

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Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"For sale" Quotes from Famous Books

... she meditatively watched Remonencq as he arranged his odds and ends for sale. She wondered how far his love could go. He ...

— Poor Relations • Honore de Balzac

... manual labour was undignified, and that it didn't pay. No trade for me, was my decision, and no superintendent's daughters. And no criminality, I also decided. That would be almost as disastrous as to be a labourer. Brains paid, not brawn, and I resolved never again to offer my muscles for sale in the brawn market. Brain, and brain ...

— John Barleycorn • Jack London

... farmer makes his profit by keeping the labouring cattle, and by parting with their maintenance. Both the price and the maintenance of the cattle which are bought in and fattened, not for labour, but for sale, are a circulating capital. The farmer makes his profit by parting with them. A flock of sheep or a herd of cattle, that, in a breeding country, is brought in neither for labour nor for sale, but in order to make a profit by their wool, ...

— An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations • Adam Smith

... thrust into her heart, carries on a lively trade in native and foreign women, to be the prey of the Christian soldier, who makes way for the Christian missionary. Here, in Christian America, marriageable young women are trotted off to church, the theatre or the ball, and practically set up for sale in the market of holy matrimony; and the Christian minister, for a consideration, seals the "Divine mystery." The Church would indignantly deny that it is a marriage mart, but denial does not throttle ...

— The Woman's Bible. • Elizabeth Cady Stanton

... strawberries in matted rows, it is usual to allow a few runners to take root and thus fill the row. It is the judgment of plant growers that plants for sale should not be produced in this way, but should be grown from plants specially ...

— One Thousand Questions in California Agriculture Answered • E.J. Wickson

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