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sale collapse: a particular instance of selling; "he has just made his first sale"; "they had to complete the sale before the banks closed"; the general activity of selling; "they tried to boost sales"; "laws limit the sale of handguns"; 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"; 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"; 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"

flea market collapse: an open-air street market for inexpensive or secondhand articles

bazaar collapse: a sale of miscellany; often for charity; "the church bazaar"; a shop where a variety of goods are sold; a street of small shops (especially in Orient)

retail collapse: the selling of goods to consumers; usually in small quantities and not for resale; selling or related to selling direct to the consumer; "retail trade"; "retail business"; "retail price"; at a retail price; "I'll sell it to you retail only"; sell on the retail market; be sold at the retail level; "These gems retail at thousands of dollars each"

white elephant collapse: albinic Indian elephant; rare and sometimes venerated in east Asia; a valuable possession whose upkeep is excessively expensive

undercut collapse: a cut made underneath to remove material; a notch cut in the trunk of tree in order to determine the direction of its fall; the material removed by a cut made underneath; cut obliquely into (a tree) below the main cut and on the side toward which the tree will fall; strike (the ball) in golf, tennis, or hockey obliquely downward so as to give a backspin or elevation to the shot; cut away the underpart of; "undercut a vein of ore"; cut away material from the underside of (an object) so as to leave an overhanging portion in relief

merchandise collapse: commodities offered for sale; "good business depends on having good merchandise"; "that store offers a variety of products"

sell short collapse: underestimate the real value or ability of; "Don't sell your students short--they are just shy and don't show off their knowledge"; sell securities or commodities or foreign currency that is not actually owned by the seller, who hopes to cover (buy back) the sold items at a lower price and thus to earn a profit

transference collapse: (psychoanalysis) the process whereby emotions are passed on or displaced from one person to another; during psychoanalysis the displacement of feelings toward others (usually the parents) is onto the analyst

oblation collapse: the act of offering the bread and wine of the Eucharist; the act of contributing to the funds of a church or charity; "oblations for aid to the poor"

milky collapse: resembling milk in color or cloudiness; not clear; "milky glass"

chalky collapse: of something having the color of chalk; "she turned chalky white"

unload collapse: take the load off (a container or vehicle); "unload the truck"; "offload the van"

sell out collapse: give information that compromises others; get rid of all one's merchandise

ivory collapse: a hard smooth ivory colored dentine that makes up most of the tusks of elephants and walruses

peace offering collapse: something offered to an adversary in the hope of obtaining peace

amortization collapse: payment of an obligation in a series of installments or transfers; the reduction of the value of an asset by prorating its cost over a period of years

transmission collapse: the act of sending a message; causing a message to be transmitted; the gears that transmit power from an automobile engine via the driveshaft to the live axle; communication by means of transmitted signals

market collapse: the world of commercial activity where goods and services are bought and sold; "without competition there would be no market"; "they were driven from the marketplace"; the securities markets in the aggregate; "the market always frustrates the small investor"; the customers for a particular product or service; "before they publish any book they try to determine the size of the market for it"; engage in the commercial promotion, sale, or distribution of; "The company is marketing its new line of beauty products"; deal in a market; buy household supplies; "We go marketing every Saturday"

grizzly collapse: powerful brownish-yellow bear of the uplands of western North America

close out collapse: terminate; "We closed out our account"; terminate by selling off or disposing of; "He closed out his line of sports cars"

leviathan collapse: monstrous sea creature symbolizing evil in the Old Testament; the largest or most massive thing of its kind; "it was a leviathan among redwoods"; "they were assigned the leviathan of textbooks"

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