Sale

Webster's Dictionary of the English Language

·noun ·see 1st Sallow.

II. Sale ·vt Opportunity of selling; demand; market.

III. Sale ·vt Public disposal to the highest bidder, or exposure of goods in market; auction.

IV. Sale ·vt 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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