COMMERCEanoccasionwhengoodsorpropertyaresoldin anauction:Brokers getticketsfromsourcesasvariedaspublicsales,walk-incustomers, and otherbrokers.[C]STOCK MARKETanoccasionwhen acompanymakessharesavailableon astockexchange:Thefirmannouncedit wasconsideringapublicsaleofitsshares.(Definition ofpublic salefrom theCambridge Business English Dictionary? Cambridge University Press)
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public saleThe revision also gave secured creditors the opportunity to force apublicsale, although the farmer could redeem the sale by paying the same amount.FromWikipediaThis example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.Whether packaged samples exist or not is unknown, but none have appeared forpublicsale.FromWikipediaThis example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.However, the tree was neither offered forpublicsalenor distribution.FromWikipediaThis example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.Also being released intopublicsaleis a flipchart which is self heightening.FromWikipediaThis example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.Today there are only a few permanent residents although land was released forpublicsalein 1999.FromWikipediaThis example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.The latter two were not initially released forpublicsale, but have been since.FromWikipediaThis example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.As a fundraising measure, the newly established farm was offered forpublicsale.FromWikipediaThis example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.These properties can be purchased before the foreclosure auction (pre-foreclosure) or at the foreclosure auction which is apublicsale.FromWikipediaThis example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.By mid-century, the firstpublicsaleof these prisoners was held.FromWikipediaThis example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.The harps went onpublicsalethat same year.FromWikipediaThis example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.These examples are from corpora and from sources on the web. Any opinions in the examples do not represent the opinion of the Cambridge Dictionary editors or of Cambridge University Press or its licensors.#https://dictionary.cambridge.org//dictionary/english/public-sale##
