Meaning

3 senses

  1. (countable, uncountable)An exchange of goods or services for currency or credit.

    He celebrated after the sale of company.

    Verkauf

    прода́жаprodáža

    про́дажpródaž, спро́дажspródaž

  2. (countable, uncountable)The act of putting up for auction to the highest bidder.

    Auktion

    аукцио́нaukción, торги́torgí

  3. (obsolete)A hall.

More definitions
  • a particular instance of selling
  • the general activity of selling
  • an occasion (usually brief) for buying at specially reduced prices
  • an agreement (or contract) in which property is transferred from the seller (vendor) to the buyer (vendee) for a fixed price in money (paid or agreed to be paid by the buyer)

Examples

428 sentences

  1. These articles are not for sale.

    Ці товари не для продажу. — deniko

    ruЭти товары не для продажи. — odexed

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  2. This book is not for sale.

    Ця книжка не продається. — deniko

    ruЭта книга не продаётся. — marafon

    deDieses Buch ist nicht zu verkaufen. — Espi

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  3. These golf clubs are for sale.

    Ці ключки для гольфу продаються. — deniko

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  4. This is no longer for sale.

    Це більше не продається. — deniko

    ruЭто уже не продаётся. — marafon

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  5. This car is not for sale.

    Ця машина не продається. — deniko

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Translations

9 languages
Українська
By meaning 1
exchange of goods or services for currency or credit:
Русский
By meaning 2
exchange of goods or services for currency or credit:
act of putting up for auction to the highest bidder:
Deutsch
By meaning 2
exchange of goods or services for currency or credit:
act of putting up for auction to the highest bidder:

Origin

From Middle English sale, from Old English sala (“act of selling, sale”), from Old Norse s

From Middle English sale, from Old English sala (“act of selling, sale”), from Old Norse sala (“sale”), from Proto-Germanic *salō (“delivery”), from Proto-Indo-European *selh₁- (“to grab”).

From Middle English sale, sal, from Old English sæl (“room, hall, castle”), from Proto-Germanic *salą (“house, hall”), from Proto-Indo-European *sel- (“home, dwelling, village”). Cognate with West Frisian seal, Dutch zaal, German Saal, Swedish sal, Icelandic salur, Lithuanian sala (“village”). Doublet of sala and salle. Related also to salon, saloon.

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Forms

plural: sales
Singularsale
Pluralsales

regular

Synonyms

6 synonyms
vendvent
Close in meaning
  • an occasion (usually brief) for buying at specially reduced prices:cut-rate salesales event
  • an agreement (or contract) in which property is transferred from the seller (vendor) to the buyer (vendee) for a fixed price in money (paid or agreed to be paid by the buyer):sales agreement

Antonyms

1 antonyms
purchaseB2

Word family

80 related words
RelatedpurchaseB2sellA1
DerivedsalesmanB1aftersalebake salebarn saleblowout saleboot salebring-and-buy saleconquest salecrowdsaledistress saledrive salee-salesestate salefire salefire-salefirst-sale doctrineflash saleforced salefor salegarage salegross salesintersalejumble salenet sales

Lessons for this word

2 lessons

Collocations

12 patterns
  • is for sale
  • are on sale
  • up for sale
  • a yard sale
  • house for sale
  • yard sale
  • bake sale
  • not for sale
  • the bake sale
  • go on sale
  • the sale prices
  • on sale today

See also

neighbours in the dictionary
salaryB2salarymansalessalesmanB1salespersonB2saleswomanB2

Dictionary text adapted from Wiktionary (Wiktionary contributors, CC BY-SA 4.0) and Open English WordNet / Princeton WordNet (CC BY 4.0, WordNet License); shared under CC BY-SA 4.0. Example sentences and recordings are credited where they appear.

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