GOING-OUT-OF-BUSINESS SALE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does going-out-of-business sale mean? 

• GOING-OUT-OF-BUSINESS SALE (noun)
  The noun GOING-OUT-OF-BUSINESS SALE has 1 sense:

1. a sale of all the tangible assets of a business that is about to close

  Familiarity information: GOING-OUT-OF-BUSINESS SALE used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• GOING-OUT-OF-BUSINESS SALE (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A sale of all the tangible assets of a business that is about to close

Classified under:

Nouns denoting acts or actions

Context example:

during the Great Depression going-out-of-business sales were very common

Hypernyms ("going-out-of-business sale" is a kind of...):

cut-rate sale; sale; sales event (an occasion (usually brief) for buying at specially reduced prices)