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Fire sale   /fˈaɪər seɪl/   Listen
Fire sale

noun
1.
A sale of assets at very low prices typically when the seller faces bankruptcy.
2.
A sale of merchandise supposedly damaged by fire.






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"Fire sale" Quotes from Famous Books



... Sales," although it speaks well for himself that he never had a fire in his own store. If others had fires he was on hand to buy the salvage, and whether he bought it or not he managed to have a "Fire Sale." He loved the smoke of commercial rhetoric, and the excitement of seeing the crowd. This applies more particularly to the first twenty years of his career. During those first years he used to have a way of opening cases on the ...
— Little Journeys to the Homes of the Great, Volume 11 (of 14) - Little Journeys to the Homes of Great Businessmen • Elbert Hubbard

... courtship had continued three years, the shoe merchant in preparing for a fire sale left too many tracks in the snow. The fire marshal reported that the fire was caused by an Israelite in the basement and Leo, after many worries and the loss of his ...
— Chit-Chat; Nirvana; The Searchlight • Mathew Joseph Holt



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