short sale short selling | sale of securities or commodity futures not owned by the seller (who hopes to buy them back later at a lower price) |
auction auction sale vendue | the public sale of something to the highest bidder |
sale | a particular instance of selling, he has just made his first sale, they had to complete the sale before the banks closed |
sale | the general activity of selling, they tried to boost sales, laws limit the sale of handguns |
sale cutate sale sales event | an occasion (usually brief) for buying at specially reduced prices, they held a sale to reduce their inventory, I got some great bargains at their annual sale |
car boot sale boot sale | an outdoor sale at which people sell things from the trunk of their car |
clearance sale inventorylearance sale | a sale to reduce inventory |
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, during the Great Depression going-out-of-business sales were very common |
rummage sale jumble sale | a sale of donated articles |
white sale | a sale of household linens |
sale sales agreement | 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), the salesman faxed the sales agreement to his home office |
conditional sale | a sale in which the buyer receives title to the property only upon the performance of some condition (usually the full payment of the purchase price) |
sale in gross contract of hazard | a sale of a tract of land as a whole without a warranty as to the acreage |
sheriff's sale execution sale judicial sale forced sale | a sale of property by the sheriff under authority of a court's writ of execution in order satisfy an unpaid obligation |
bill of sale | a deed transferring personal property |
conditional sale | a security interest taken by the seller in return for credit |
sale | the state of being purchasable, offered or exhibited for selling, you'll find vitamin C for sale at most pharmacies, the new line of cars will soon be on sale |
dull | make less lively or vigorous, Middle age dulled her appetite for travel |
dull | become dull or lusterless in appearance, lose shine or brightness, the varnished table top dulled with time |
pall dull | become less interesting or attractive |
dull | make dull in appearance, Age had dulled the surface |
dull blunt | make dull or blunt, Too much cutting dulls the knife's edge |
numb benumb blunt dull | make numb or insensitive, The shock numbed her senses |
muffle mute dull damp dampen tone down | deaden (a sound or noise), especially by wrapping |
dull slow sluggish | (of business) not active or brisk, business is dull (or slow), a sluggish market |
purchasable for sale | available for purchase, purchasable goods, many houses in the area are for sale |
dull | emitting or reflecting very little light, a dull glow, dull silver badly in need of a polish, a dull sky |
dull-purple | of a dull shade of purple |
dull-white | of a dull shade of white |
dull | (of color) very low in saturation, highly diluted, dull greens and blues |
dense dim dull dumb obtuse slow | slow to learn or understand, lacking intellectual acuity, so dense he never understands anything I say to him, never met anyone quite so dim, although dull at classical learning, at mathematics he was uncommonly quick- Thackeray, dumb officials make some really dumb decisions, he was either normally stupid or being deliberately obtuse, worked with the slow students |
dull leaden | darkened with overcast, a dark day, a dull sky, the sky was leaden and thick |
dull | not having a sharp edge or point, the knife was too dull to be of any use |
dull | not keenly felt, a dull throbbing, dull pain |
dull | lacking in liveliness or animation, he was so dull at parties, a dull political campaign, a large dull impassive man, dull days with nothing to do, how dull and dreary the world is, fell back into one of her dull moods |
boring deadening dull ho-hum irksome slow tedious tiresome wearisome | so lacking in interest as to cause mental weariness, a boring evening with uninteresting people, the deadening effect of some routine tasks, a dull play, his competent but dull performance, a ho-hum speaker who couldn't capture their attention, what an irksome task the writing of long letters is- Edmund Burke, tedious days on the train, the tiresome chirping of a cricket- Mark Twain, other people's dreams are dreadfully wearisome |
dull muffled muted softened | being or made softer or less loud or clear, the dull boom of distant breaking waves, muffled drums, the muffled noises of the street, muted trumpets |
dull thudding | not clear and resonant, sounding as if striking with or against something relatively soft, the dull thud, thudding bullets |
dull | blunted in responsiveness or sensibility, a dull gaze, so exhausted she was dull to what went on about her- Willa Cather |
point-of-sale | of or relating to or being the location where something is purchased |