Collocations for "sale"
Common phrases and expressions where native English speakers use the word "sale" in context.
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sale
ⓘMost examples are given in US English. We have labeled exceptions as UK.n
- a [yard, garage, car, church, rummage] sale
- a [clearance, liquidation, stock, closing down, second-hand] sale
- UK: a [jumble, car boot] sale
- hold a [bake, cake] sale
- [school, charity] [bake] sale
- the [Christmas, January, summer, Thanksgiving] sales
- a [quick, slow, fast] sale
- [total, net, record] sales
- [pre, post, after] -sales
- [after] -sales [service, support]
- the store [registered, took, declared] $1 million in sales
- the [terms, conditions, points] of sale
- the sale of the [property]
- need to make a sale [today, soon]
- haven't made a sale all [day, week]
- [haggle, argue, deliberate] over the sale
- [homes, properties, computers] for sale
- put their [home, house] up for sale
- [looking, hoping] for a quick sale
- [found, picked up, bagged] some bargains [at, in] the sales
- prices have been [cut, reduced, slashed] for the sales
- the sales start on [Saturday]
- sales have [been slow, plummeted, picked up]
- a sale on [TVs, clothing]
- the [products, items, shoes] are on sale
- the [stores, department stores, shops, outlets] are having a sale
- on sale from [today, Monday]
- on sale [today, Saturday] only
- (just) went on sale (today)
- sale [items, conditions, bargains]
'sale' also found in these entries (note: many are not synonyms or translations):
Friday
- Monday
- Thursday
- alcohol
- allege
- apartment
- ban
- benefit
- bill
- board
- boat
- buy
- century
- charge
- charity
- clearance
- closing
- clothing
- commercial
- commodity
- complete
- confirmation
- currently
- deed
- domestic
- drug
- equipment
- export
- fall
- fillet
- forbid
- franchise
- fur
- furniture
- garage
- garment
- goat
- greenhouse
- handle
- hardware
- harvest
- hold
- house
- hurry
- intimate
- inventory
- issuance
- item
- ivory
- jewelry