fire sale
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fire sale
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By metonymy, from 19th century discount sales of products that had been damaged by fire or that could no longer be stored because the storage facility had been destroyed by fire necessitating immediate sale or loss of value.
noun fire sales
- A clearance sale at greatly reduced prices, often at losses. By the following year, Lehman’s enormous holdings in subprime loans were all but wiped out, and Bush was enlisted to see if he could engineer a fire sale of some of the bank’s empire of debt to the Mexican billionaire Carlos Slim.
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noun clearance sale at reduced prices
| 中文 | 清倉甩賣 /清仓甩卖 qīngcāng shuǎimài |
|---|---|
| Deutsch | Ausverkauf |
Talk about this word "fire sale." Wiktionary, via Micwyn, micwyn.com/word/fire%20sale. Accessed 6 Nov. 2026. fire sale. (n.d.). In Wiktionary, via Micwyn. Retrieved November 6, 2026, from https://micwyn.com/word/fire%20sale "fire sale." Wiktionary, via Micwyn. Accessed November 6, 2026. https://micwyn.com/word/fire%20sale.Cite this
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title = {fire sale},
howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
year = {2026},
url = {https://micwyn.com/word/fire%20sale},
urldate = {2026-11-06}
}
