CUT-RATE SALE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does cut-rate sale mean? 

• CUT-RATE SALE (noun)
  The noun CUT-RATE SALE has 1 sense:

1. an occasion (usually brief) for buying at specially reduced prices

  Familiarity information: CUT-RATE SALE used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• CUT-RATE SALE (noun)

Meaning:

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

Classified under:

Nouns denoting acts or actions

Synonyms:

cut-rate sale; sales event; sale

Context examples:

they held a sale to reduce their inventory / I got some great bargains at their annual sale

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)

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)

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

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)

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

white sale (a sale of household linens)