sales event

Noun
  1. An occasion (usually brief) for buying at specially reduced prices (synset 101120044)
    "they held a sale to reduce their inventory"; "I got some great bargains at their annual sale"
    is a type of: occasion - an opportunity to do something
    subtypes:
    • 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
    same as: cut-rate sale, sale

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