<noun.act> he has just made his first sale they had to complete the sale before the banks closed
the general activity of selling
<noun.act> they tried to boost sales laws limit the sale of handguns
an occasion (usually brief) for buying at specially reduced prices
<noun.act> they held a sale to reduce their inventory I got some great bargains at their annual sale
the state of being purchasable; offered or exhibited for selling
<noun.state> you'll find vitamin C for sale at most pharmacies the new line of cars will soon be on sale
an agreement (or contract) in which property is transferred from the seller (vendor) to the buyer (vendee) for a fixed price in money (paid or agreed to be paid by the buyer)
<noun.communication> the salesman faxed the sales agreement to his home office
Sale \Sale\, n. See 1st {Sallow}. [Obs.] --Spenser.
Sale \Sale\, n. [Icel. sala, sal, akin to E. sell. See {Sell}, v. t.] 1. 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.
2. Opportunity of selling; demand; market.
They shall have ready sale for them. --Spenser.
3. 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.
The sale is part of Salinas' plan for cutting inflation and reviving the economy.
Tickets were on sale here for three Bruce Springsteen concerts later this month.
"I think we're coming out of" fiscal 1989 "much stronger as a result of the Nippon sale," Mr. Banks said.
That sale will complete the refunding auction.
The panel also killed a bill that would have required the sale of guns from one private owner to another be reported to state police, and one that would have increased penalties for people caught carrying guns without permits.
In a related matter, Mr. Reynolds said he is "hopeful" that the FCC will approve the proposed sale of KHJ-TV, Los Angeles, before year end, despite the administrative law judge's ruling.
A municipal judge ruled that the magazines are obscene, opening the way for city officials to ban their sale in Urbana.
The San Francisco-based REIT's latest results also included a gain of $522,000 from sale of another property.
Mr. Spencer also said the company anticipates domestic sale approval from the Food and Drug Administration within 60 days of its small-diameter angiocatheter, which is inserted into occluded coronary arteries.
Ian Story, an analyst with the stockbrokerage BZW Meares Ltd., estimated the financier could raise 2.9 billion dollars through the sale of assets.
Prices last week were off 41% from six years ago and 11% from last year's sale.
Reynolds & Reynolds said the sale of the two units should increase pretax income by about $3.5 million in fiscal 1992.
Withdrawals by woolgrowers are still very high, reaching as much as 55pc af the Fremantle sale on Tuesday, though 20pc is more typical.
Even here, to judge by the girlie magazines freely on sale in Shanghai, the campaign is languishing.
Page and Van Dusen would not disclose terms of the transaction, expected to take place within 90 days, but industry experts estimate the sale price at $65 million.
Even though Congress has approved the Great Plains sale, the plant's high operating costs make its market value questionable in the face of depressed oil and gas prices.
The success of its forthcoming share sale will largely depend on how far that can be changed.
The sale was one of a number of actions sanctioned by Judge Helen Balick.
In a leveraged buyout, a company is acquired mainly with borrowed funds that are repaid with the target company's cash flow or by the sale of its assets.
Only yesterday, the US Customs confirmed it was investigating whether export laws were violated in a 1985 sale of Thomson lasers to Iraq.
Boyd told the Saint Paul (Minn.) Pioneer Press that the loan follows a precedent established in 1987 when Boeing Co. bought $700 million in convertible notes from Allegis, then the parent company to United Airlines, as part of a jet sale.
GW Utilities, which has interests in oil production and transportation, paid a special dividend of C$10 a share, or C$393 million, in January following the sale of its 82% stake in Consumers Gas Ltd. to British Gas PLC.
But KKR's plan for RJR probably would lead to the sale of RJR's tobacco business.
The major dolls will go on sale next month for $7.99 each.
Babbitt's campaign has put up some of its computers for sale back home in Phoenix.
The company completed the sale of its business periodicals, trade shows and school supply distribution companies for $334 million and of two television station for $10.8 million in the quarter.
But a spokeswoman for Mohawk's parent, Danaher Corp., says that while "overtures have been made from time to time," talk of a sale is "pure speculation."
The measure would ban the import of five foreign-made weapons and outlaw the manufacture of four other varieties in this country. The bill would not bar possession or sale of the weapons.
A spokeswoman for Shearson Lehman Hutton said the merged firms won't be hurt by the matter, which involves the sale of municipal bonds in the early 1980s.
A heavy tax liability may prompt the sale of the late William S. Paley's 8 percent stake in the media giant CBS Inc., a published report said today.