Definition of Sale

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Definition of Sale

Sale

See 1st Sallow.

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.

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

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Sale Quotations

I am mortified to be told that, in the United States of America, the sale of a book can become a subject of inquiry, and of criminal inquiry too.
Thomas Jefferson

How come anything you buy will go on sale next week?
Erma Bombeck

Virtue has its own reward, but no sale at the box office.
Mae West

Anything that won't sell, I don't want to invent. Its sale is proof of utility, and utility is success.
Thomas A. Edison

Not just in commerce but in the world of ideas too our age is putting on a veritable clearance sale. Everything can be had so dirt cheap that one begins to wonder whether in the end anyone will want to make a bid.
Soren Kierkegaard

All business success rests on something labeled a sale, which at least momentarily weds company and customer.
Tom Peters

Every election is a sort of advance auction sale of stolen goods.
H. L. Mencken

It is a strange trade that of advocacy. Your intellect, your highest heavenly gift is hung up in the shop window like a loaded pistol for sale.
Thomas Carlyle

Life is like a cash register, in that every account, every thought, every deed, like every sale, is registered and recorded.
Fulton J. Sheen

Plan the sale when you plan the ad.
Leo Burnett

Sale Translations

sale in Danish is salg
sale in Dutch is vervreemding, verkoop
sale in German is verkaufen, Verkauf, Verkauf
sale in Portuguese is venda
sale in Spanish is venta

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