Word a Day
sale
What does sale mean?
sale (noun): a particular instance of selling.
Definition: Princeton WordNet 3.1.
How do you use sale in a sentence?
- They had to complete the sale before the banks closed. (Princeton WordNet 3.1)
How do you pronounce sale?
/seɪl/ (IPA, American English). The app reads every word aloud.
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