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For sale   /fɔr seɪl/   Listen
noun
Sale  n.  
1.
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.
2.
Opportunity of selling; demand; market. "They shall have ready sale for them."
3.
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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"For sale" Quotes from Famous Books



... and Patterns of the Taunton Foundry and Machine Company for sale, by the George Place Machinery Agency, 121 Chambers ...
— Scientific American, Volume XLIII., No. 25, December 18, 1880 • Various
... regular carriage-track a wheel might pass straight through it. Stalls of apples are innumerable, but the apples are not fit for a pig. In some streets herrings are very abundant, laid out on boards. Coals seem to be for sale by the wheelbarrowful. Here and there you see children with some small article for sale,—as, for instance, a girl with two linen caps. A somewhat overladen cart of coal was passing along and some small quantity of the coal fell off; no sooner had the ...
— Passages From the English Notebooks, Complete • Nathaniel Hawthorne
... the Administrator shortly. "You've come here by mistake, no doubt. There's no petrol for sale in the port, to ...
— Round the World in Seven Days • Herbert Strang
... than the man and the rabble he had collected round him for the purpose of annoying Colonel Taylor while speaking. A few minutes afterwards this same person brought a horse near the court-house door, and commenced crying the horse, as though he were for sale, and continued for ten or fifteen minutes to ride before the court-house door, crying the horse in a loud and boisterous tone of voice. The judge sat as a silent listener to the indignity thus offered the court and counsel by this ...
— Diary in America, Series Two • Frederick Marryat (AKA Captain Marryat)
... Ninny went ashore, and took with him a little bag of clean white salt to show what kind of goods he had for sale, and he asked his way to the palace of the Tzar of that town. He came to the palace, and went in and bowed to ...
— Old Peter's Russian Tales • Arthur Ransome


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