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noun

Sale n. See 1st Sallow. (Obs.)

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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... After-sale handholding; something many software vendors promise but few deliver. To hackers, most support people are useless —- because by the time a hacker calls support he or she will usually know the relevant manuals better ...

— THE JARGON FILE, VERSION 2.9.10

... was on the committee for a great sale we had in our arrondissement in Paris for the benefit of "L'Assistance par le Travail," an excellent work which we are all much interested in. I was in charge of the buffet, and thought it better to apply at once to one of the great caterers, Potel and Chabot, ...

— Chateau and Country Life in France • Mary King Waddington

... white rule has not yet been asserted. The Arabs of the Congo, who went there from East Africa solely that they might grow rich in the slave trade, are now settled quietly on their rice and banana plantations. The sale of strong drink has been restricted by international agreement to the coast regions, where the traffic has long existed, and its evils are somewhat mitigated there by the regulations now enforced. Fifty thousand Congo natives who would not carry a pound of freight for Stanley ...

— Beacon Lights of History, Volume XIV • John Lord

... Syracusans to redeem their own, and made it a means also for raising a stock for the community, which had been so much impoverished of late, and was so unable to defray other expenses, and especially those of a war, that they exposed their very statues to sale, a regular process being observed, and sentence of auction passed upon each of them by majority of votes, as if they had been so many criminals taking their trial: in the course of which it is said that while condemnation was pronounced ...

— Plutarch's Lives • A.H. Clough

... single pearl. It struck me at the time as being very astonishing that, a small kingdom like Denmark, and not a rich one, could find a surplus revenue sufficient to collect such immensity of wealth, and the resources of the country not flag by its useless accumulation. Why, the sale of all the jewellery, and gold, and silver in the castle of Rosenberg would pay off half the national ...

— A Yacht Voyage to Norway, Denmark, and Sweden - 2nd edition • W. A. Ross

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