The Collaborative International Dictionary
Sale \Sale\, n. [Icel. sala, sal, akin to E. sell. See Sell, v. t.]
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.
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Opportunity of selling; demand; market.
They shall have ready sale for them.
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Public disposal to the highest bidder, or exposure of goods in market; auction.
--Sir W. Temple.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.]
--Milton.
Wiktionary
prep.phr. 1 (context British English) Available for purchase. 2 (context US English) Available for purchase at reduced prices.
Usage examples of "on sale".
Every person exposing food or wares on sale in the markets on days other than those fixed by the municipal government will be prosecuted in the police court for obstructing a public thoroughfare.
I had such a source in the large, wholesale House of Onyx, but was lured by an ad in the local newspaper for a huge star sapphire on sale privately.
At the store, where many things were on sale, we arranged to buy a small amount of ammunition and some supplies.
Of the fifty-nine works on sale the Canaletto had been left until Lot Number 37 as I wanted an atmosphere of excitement to build before the painting reached the stand, while not leaving it so late that people started to drift away.
When colored postcards of his disemboweled body were placed on sale, little white arrows pointed to forty-seven bullet wounds.
We were getting one, anyway, but last week I found just what I wanted, on sale at that, so I didn’.
We were getting one, anyway, but last week I found just what I wanted, on sale at that, so I didnt wait.
Outside the Curulean also, on sale days, actual slave girls are exhibited, some in suspended plastic cages fastened to the roof of the portico, others in a tier of cages lining the interior wall of the portico.
Outside the Curulean also, on sale days, actual slave girls are exhibited, some in suspended plastic cages gastened to the roof of the portico, others in a tier of cages lining the interior wall of the portico.