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EXECUTION SALE
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Dictionary entry overview: What does execution sale mean?
• EXECUTION SALE (noun)
The noun EXECUTION 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: EXECUTION SALE used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
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 ("execution 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))
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