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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
resale
noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ NOUN
price
▪ Each agreement also contained a resale price maintenance clause.
▪ With nine petrol cars being sold to every one diesel, scarcity keeps resale prices up.
▪ There is one particular practice that has been singled out for special treatment and that is resale price maintenance.
▪ There are similar provisions in relation to individual restrictions regulating minimum resale prices or charges as between a manufacturer and a retailer.
value
▪ Anyone would have thought I'd lowered the resale value of the van or something.
▪ According to this view, short-termism is a feature of investments in firm-specific assets that have a low resale value outside the firm.
▪ These goods had a resale value of £12,000 and had been purchased by Transom Trading for £8,000.
▪ Price and resale value Anatolian rugs are relatively inexpensive and represent very good value for money.
▪ Both have contributed to the higher resale values for diesels, tilting the operating-cost equation in favour of the oil-burners.
▪ Most contemporary Anatolian items are sufficiently attractive to be well worth buying, whatever their resale value.
▪ It had a resale value, even if it was no more than a few lire.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ A company owned and run by Mr and Mrs Bunch carried on the business of purchase and resale of bulk butter.
▪ For example, often firms will receive quantity discounts when they are purchasing large quantities of goods for manufacture or resale.
▪ He also caused a stir with his purchase in 1896 and resale in segments of the Trafford Park estate in Manchester.
▪ However patrons may deposit tickets at the Box Office for possible resale.
▪ If you are buying a property, then always try to maximise your resale potential.
▪ The spivs will wave away any objections with promises about easy resale, low cost finance and tiny deposit payments.
▪ The year end 1991 figures exclude 3,734 employees directly employed by overseas businesses held for resale which were sold during 1992.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Resale

Resale \Re*sale"\ (r?-s?l" or r?"s?l), n. A sale at second hand, or at retail; also, a second sale.
--Bacon.

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
resale

1620s, from re- "back, again" + sale (n.).

Wiktionary
resale

a. Of or pertaining to selling on. n. The action of selling something previously bought, usually at a higher price for profit.

WordNet
resale

n. the selling of something purchased

Usage examples of "resale".

The Club always made money on the resale of the property purchased for the advance man, like the pawnshop Fala bought.

In the agreement the lawyer and the investor meet at the bank along with an appraiser certified by the APS, and the investment account is appraised, and if the current estimated resale value is higher than the breaking point in the agreement, the account is then accepted by the investor, and the agreement is surrendered.

They range from a man who can bring in enough popskull whiskey to anesthetize the whole VFW to smaller operators who bring in cases of beer from Atlanta or from Arcade, down toward Athens, for resale.

Wall Street, it is impossible to prevent the repetition of those acts by which in five years I have accumulated a billion dollars, impossible so long as a short sale or a repurchase and resale, is allowed.

When short sales, and repurchases and resales, are made impossible, stock speculation will be dead.

Another had been waved off from Leonora, and she learned that the onstation legal services had already certified its cargo as undeliverable, available for resale.

A self-made multibillionaire in the gray world of international technology resale, Farmer had legions of people sweating with eagerness to take care of his business for him.

Bare lots were sold to aspiring snowbirds for three to five times the true resale value.

So the year in Delaware with the Degree of Latitude is an Atonement, an immersion in "real" Science, a Baptism of the Cypress swamp, and even a Rebirth, not some hir'd Cadastral Survey by its nature corrupt, of use at Trail's End only to those who would profit from the sale and division and resale of Lands.

Science, a Baptism of the Cypress swamp, and even a Rebirth, not some hir'd Cadastral Survey by its nature corrupt, of use at Trail's End only to those who would profit from the sale and division and resale of Lands.

Des dropped his blaster and went through the cabin with the recklessness of rage, spilling out food stores in case they contained jewels or antique money, smashing crude pottery cups and dishes that all too obviously had no resale value even on Rushima, let along anywhere civilized.

Other items categorized for resale or distribution to cover marginal costs.

I did own a portable radio cassette for checking that interstellar war hadn't broken out, and for playing taped music if I felt like it, but it was no grand affair with resale value.

Due to the Fleet having in excess of two thousand service tugs of the normal type, and if any purchaser will undertake upon the sales papers not to hold the Fleet responsible if this vessel blows up, the resale price is hereby fixed at a half a million credits.

Then he took a taxi to the Department of Energy, called on the proper friend, and collected the information he needed about who managed which pipelines and the ebb and flow, sales and resales, of oil and gas in and out of the San Juan Basin fields.