garage sale

garage sale
`garage ,sale noun count AMERICAN
an occasion when someone sells furniture, clothes, books, toys, etc. that they do not want any more

Usage of the words and phrases in modern English. 2013.

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  • garage sale — garage sales N COUNT If you have a garage sale, you sell things such as clothes, toys and household items that you do not want, usually in your garage. [mainly AM] …   English dictionary

  • garage sale —  Sale of unwanted items at extremely low prices.  ► “Viewers must sort through an unlabeled mass of cooking implements, kerosene lamps, manual typewriters, wooden eagles, rusty bicycles, cut glass decanters and antique chests it’s like being at a …   American business jargon

  • Garage sale — For the episode of The Office, see Garage Sale (The Office). Yard sale in Durham, North Carolina. A garage sale, also known as a yard sale, rummage sale, tag sale, lawn sale, attic sale, moving sale, or junk sale, is an informal, irregularly… …   Wikipedia

  • garage sale — noun an outdoor sale of used personal or household items held on the seller s premises • Syn: ↑yard sale • Hypernyms: ↑sale, ↑cut rate sale, ↑sales event * * * noun, pl ⋯ sales [count] chiefly US : a sale of used furniture, clothing …   Useful english dictionary

  • garage sale — UK / US noun [countable] Word forms garage sale : singular garage sale plural garage sales an occasion when someone sells furniture, clothes, books, toys etc that they do not want any more …   English dictionary

  • garage sale — n. (AE) to have, hold a garage sale * * * hold a garage sale (AE) to have …   Combinatory dictionary

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