FOR SALE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does for sale mean? 

• FOR SALE (adjective)
  The adjective FOR SALE has 1 sense:

1. available for purchase

  Familiarity information: FOR SALE used as an adjective is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• FOR SALE (adjective)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Available for purchase

Synonyms:

for sale; purchasable

Context example:

many houses in the area are for sale

Similar:

available (obtainable or accessible and ready for use or service)

 Context examples 

No, White Fang was not for sale at any price.

(White Fang, by Jack London)

Green candy and green pop corn were offered for sale, as well as green shoes, green hats, and green clothes of all sorts.

(The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, by L. Frank Baum)

The people or companies engaged in a particular kind of commercial enterprise; the organized action of making of goods and services for sale.

(Industry, NCI Thesaurus)

All written, printed, or graphic matter accompanying an article at any time while such article is in interstate commerce or held for sale after shipment or delivery in interstate commerce.

(Labeling, NCI Thesaurus)

"In this instance I am not prompted by curiosity; I act on the part of Lord Godalming, who wishes to know something of the property which was, he understood, lately for sale."

(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)

I was born with a caul, which was advertised for sale, in the newspapers, at the low price of fifteen guineas.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

Now, I have kept my eye since, upon the broker's shop, said Traddles, with a great enjoyment of his mystery, which is up at the top of Tottenham Court Road, and, at last, today I find them put out for sale.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

I read to him the notes which I had made at the time, and which I inscribe here:—At Purfleet, on a by-road, I came across just such a place as seemed to be required, and where was displayed a dilapidated notice that the place was for sale.

(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)

I was so young and childish, and so little qualified—how could I be otherwise? —to undertake the whole charge of my own existence, that often, in going to Murdstone and Grinby's, of a morning, I could not resist the stale pastry put out for sale at half-price at the pastrycooks' doors, and spent in that the money I should have kept for my dinner.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

With a washerwoman, who exposes hard-bake for sale in her parlour-window, dwelling next door, and a Bow-street officer residing over the way, you may imagine that his society is a source of consolation to myself and to Mrs. Micawber.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)