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CUT-RATE SALE

Pronunciation (US): Play  (GB): Play

 I. (noun) 

Sense 1

Meaning:

An occasion (usually brief) for buying at specially reduced pricesplay

Example:

I got some great bargains at their annual sale

Synonyms:

cut-rate sale; sale; sales event

Classified under:

Nouns denoting acts or actions

Hypernyms ("cut-rate sale" is a kind of...):

occasion (an opportunity to do something)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "cut-rate sale"):

bazaar; fair (a sale of miscellany; often for charity)

boot sale; car boot sale (an outdoor sale at which people sell things from the trunk of their car)

clearance sale; inventory-clearance sale (a sale to reduce inventory)

closeout (a sale intended to dispose of all remaining stock)

fire sale (a sale of merchandise supposedly damaged by fire)

fire sale (a sale of assets at very low prices typically when the seller faces bankruptcy)

garage sale; yard sale (an outdoor sale of used personal or household items held on the seller's premises)

going-out-of-business sale (a sale of all the tangible assets of a business that is about to close)

realisation; realization (a sale in order to obtain money (as a sale of stock or a sale of the estate of a bankrupt person) or the money so obtained)

jumble sale; rummage sale (a sale of donated articles)

selloff (a sale of a relatively large number of assets (stocks or bonds or commodities) at a low price typically done to dispose of them rather than as normal trade)

white sale (a sale of household linens)

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