1
: the act of selling again usually to a new party
2
a
: a secondhand sale
b
: an additional sale to the same buyer
Examples of resale in a Sentence
They earned thousands of dollars on resales of the baseball tickets.
He buys baseball collectibles and then holds them for resale.
The resale price of the car is $8,000.
Recent Examples on the Web
The median resale single-family home price in the San Diego metro was $970,000 in November.
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Phillip Molnar, San Diego Union-Tribune, 28 Jan. 2025
By introducing a direct-purchase program, Samsung could attract new customers who see better resale opportunities.
—Joel Thayer, Newsweek, 27 Jan. 2025
This is where various reverse logistics firms come into play depending upon whether the item is suited for repair/refurbishing, resale through secondary markets and liquidators or recycling or reuse of parts.
—Pamela N. Danziger, Forbes, 21 Jan. 2025
According to their insights, no collection will see more resale traction this year than the collaboration between Louis Vuitton and Takashi Murakami, who, in January, released a re-edition of the line that launched 20 years ago.
—Irina Grechko, refinery29.com, 17 Jan. 2025
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Phillip Molnar, San Diego Union-Tribune, 28 Jan. 2025
By introducing a direct-purchase program, Samsung could attract new customers who see better resale opportunities.
—Joel Thayer, Newsweek, 27 Jan. 2025
This is where various reverse logistics firms come into play depending upon whether the item is suited for repair/refurbishing, resale through secondary markets and liquidators or recycling or reuse of parts.
—Pamela N. Danziger, Forbes, 21 Jan. 2025
According to their insights, no collection will see more resale traction this year than the collaboration between Louis Vuitton and Takashi Murakami, who, in January, released a re-edition of the line that launched 20 years ago.
—Irina Grechko, refinery29.com, 17 Jan. 2025
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“Resale.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/resale. Accessed 2 Feb. 2025.
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resale
noun
re·sale
ˈrē-ˌsāl 
(ˈ)rē-ˈsā(ə)l
: the act or an instance of selling again
Legal Definition
resale
noun
re·sale
ˈrē-ˌsāl, ˌrē-ˈsāl
: the act or an instance of selling again
specifically
: the selling of goods again by the same seller by right and after a breach by the original buyer
a purchaser that buys in good faith at a resale takes the goods free of any rights of the original buyer —Uniform Commercial Code
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