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Definition of Cut-rate sale
1. Noun. An occasion (usually brief) for buying at specially reduced prices. "I got some great bargains at their annual sale"
Specialized synonyms: Bazaar, Fair, Boot Sale, Car Boot Sale, Clearance Sale, Inventory-clearance Sale, Closeout, Fire Sale, Fire Sale, Garage Sale, Yard Sale, Going-out-of-business Sale, Realisation, Realization, Jumble Sale, Rummage Sale, Selloff, White Sale
Generic synonyms: Occasion
Lexicographical Neighbors of Cut-rate Sale
Literary usage of Cut-rate sale
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Successful Family Life on the Moderate Income: Its Foundation in a Fair by Mary Hinman Abel (1921)
"... up on 'bargain days can be taught the folly of spending ten cents in carfare
and twenty-five cents worth of time to save a trifle at a cut-rate sale. ..."
2. Tales of the Trail: A Book of Western Sketches in Verse by James William Foley (1914)
"... it 1 There's only one thing that would tempt that man t' quit this life o'
sin, An' that would be a cut-rate sale on coffins, with a hearse throwed in. ..."
3. Tales of the Trail: A Book of Western Sketches in Verse by James William Foley (1914)
"... only one thing that would tempt that man t' quit this life o' sin, An' that
would be a cut-rate sale on coffins, with a hearse throwed in. ..."
4. Prairie Breezes by James William Foley (1904)
"There's only one thing that would tempt that man t' quit this life o' sin, An'
that would be a cut-rate sale on coffins, with a hearse throwed in. ..."
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