SHERIFF'S SALE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does sheriff's sale mean? 

• SHERIFF'S SALE (noun)
  The noun SHERIFF'S SALE has 1 sense:

1. a sale of property by the sheriff under authority of a court's writ of execution in order satisfy an unpaid obligation

  Familiarity information: SHERIFF'S SALE used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• SHERIFF'S SALE (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A sale of property by the sheriff under authority of a court's writ of execution in order satisfy an unpaid obligation

Classified under:

Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents

Synonyms:

execution sale; forced sale; judicial sale; sheriff's sale

Hypernyms ("sheriff's sale" is a kind of...):

sale; sales agreement (an agreement (or contract) in which property is transferred from the seller (vendor) to the buyer (vendee) for a fixed price in money (paid or agreed to be paid by the buyer))