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.
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Katie Decker-Jacoby, StyleCaster, 19 Nov. 2024
Last-minute tickets for the race in Nevada are still available on resale sites such as TicketNetwork, Vivid Seats and SeatGeek.
—Rudie Obias, Variety, 13 Nov. 2024
Roughly 60 copies of the game have been sold on the online resale site since posts on X started gaining traction.
—Kalhan Rosenblatt, NBC News, 12 Nov. 2024
The best of them are listed at inflated prices on the resale market.
—Alice Cary, Vogue, 24 Oct. 2024
See all Example Sentences for resale
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“Resale.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/resale. Accessed 26 Nov. 2024.
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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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