NOUN
- a sale of assets at very low prices typically when the seller faces bankruptcy
- a sale of merchandise supposedly damaged by fire
How To Use fire sale In A Sentence
- They're likely to hold big fire sales to liquidate their inventory.
- The company was forced to have a fire sale of its assets.
- Their wonderful intellectual property is then sold for knockdown prices in a fire sale. Times, Sunday Times
- Tablets of most of its competitors are gathering dust or being sold at fire sale prices, as Hewlett-Packard was forced to do when it exited the business entirely.
- They're likely to hold big fire sales to liquidate their inventory.
- They're likely to hold big fire sales to liquidate their inventory.
- First of all returning to Ed's question about the term policies, Rich, well I understand that there was a fire sale. Financial Sector and Stocks Analysis from Seeking Alpha
- We are not looking for a fire sale ... if we are not abl Shell's Net Increases 57%
- The beneficiaries of this fire sale will be transnational companies and China's wealthy elite, who have intimate connections to the political leadership.
- In theory privatisation has the scope to restructure the economy, but a fire sale risks letting the choicest assets fall into the hands of cronies who will manipulate regulation to suit themselves.
