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n. The sale of a person's possessions after their death, normally formalised by the executor of the estate.
Wikipedia
An estate sale or estate liquidation is a sale or auction to dispose of a substantial portion of the materials owned by a person who is recently deceased or who must dispose of his or her personal property to facilitate a move.
Usage examples of "estate sale".
She had also found the chess set at an estate sale in New Hampshire.
Kristy was sitting because her two older brothers were out somewhere, and her parents had gone to another estate sale.
At an estate sale, the contents of a whole house are being sold, so instead of walking around someone's front yard, looking at chipped plates and falling-apart couches, you walk through someone's house, looking at all their furniture and valuable stuff.
The big difference between a yard sale and an estate sale is how much everything costs.
At an estate sale, things are in good condition and sometimes cost an awful lot of money.
The excitement began when I unpacked a box of paperbacks I had purchased as part of a job lot at an estate sale in Woodstock the previous weekend.
If a jeweler up here ever put it in an estate sale, and my in-laws ever saw it, I’.
Also, once he was successfully disposed of, she should be able to buy the property at bargain rates at his estate sale.
The gorget she had purchased from a private estate sale was a lovely artifact.