: heavily discounted
fire-sale prices
: a sale of merchandise damaged in a fire
also
: a sale at very low prices
Examples of fire-sale in a Sentence
Noun
The company is having a fire sale of its old office equipment.
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Steve Booren, The Denver Post, 17 Nov. 2024
The building had been on the market since November with an asking price of $925,000, a fire-sale price for a building likely to cost millions to bring to code.
—Darrell Smith, Sacramento Bee, 3 July 2024
Paolo Confino, Fortune, 25 Oct. 2024
While never easy to secure, venture funding is more scarce, valuations are down, exit options are dwindling, and shutdowns, fire sales, and hard pivots are happening everywhere.
—Catalina Daniels
james Sherman, Harvard Business Review, 30 Jan. 2024
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Adjective
Large investors are throwing in the towel and selling prime properties at fire-sale prices, because the majority are over-leveraged while vacancies continue to rise, leading to lower cash flow.
—Steve Booren, The Denver Post, 17 Nov. 2024
The building had been on the market since November with an asking price of $925,000, a fire-sale price for a building likely to cost millions to bring to code.
—Darrell Smith, Sacramento Bee, 3 July 2024
Noun
Trump currently owns about 114.5 million shares, a stake so large that selling it on the open market would almost certainly lead to a fire sale.
—Paolo Confino, Fortune, 25 Oct. 2024
While never easy to secure, venture funding is more scarce, valuations are down, exit options are dwindling, and shutdowns, fire sales, and hard pivots are happening everywhere.
—Catalina Daniels
james Sherman, Harvard Business Review, 30 Jan. 2024
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“Fire-sale.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/fire-sale. Accessed 24 Nov. 2024.
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