up for sale

Variant of sale

sale definition

sale (sāl)

noun

  1. the act of selling; exchange of property of any kind, or of services, for an agreed sum of money or other valuable consideration
  2. opportunity to sell or be sold; market
  3. the act of offering goods to the highest bidder; auction
  4. a special offering of goods at prices lower than usual
  5. receipts in business
  6. the work, department, etc. of selling a job in sales

Etymology: ME < OE sala < ON: for IE base see sell

sale Idioms

for sale

to be sold; offered for purchase
also up for sale

on sale

for sale, esp. at a price lower than usual

Webster's New World College Dictionary Copyright © 2009 by Wiley Publishing, Inc., Cleveland, Ohio.
Used by arrangement with John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

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