Definitions

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

  • noun The act of selling again.

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun A second sale; a sale of what was before sold to the possessor; a sale at second hand.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • noun A sale at second hand, or at retail; also, a second sale.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • noun The action of selling something previously bought, usually at a higher price for profit.
  • adjective Of or pertaining to selling on.

from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

  • noun the selling of something purchased

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Examples

  • By Alex Perez-pratIf you have spent much time looking at internet marketing ebooks or trying to make money online you have probably heard the term resale rights.

    We Blog A Lot 2008

  • I will admit I do not know how the mark up compares between bows and guns but I do know the resale is not comparable.

    Two Shotguns Equal One Bow? 2009

  • I will admit I do not know how the mark up compares between bows and guns but I do know the resale is not comparable.

    Two Shotguns Equal One Bow? 2009

  • You will still be paying a retail price, through the nose, a markup that will take decades to recover in resale value, but chances are great that it will eventually have some reseale value.

    Matthew Yglesias » The Truth About Diamonds 2007

  • Government property Commercial resale is unlawful `, says the Dallas Morning News.

    Disaster relief meals on eBay 2005

  • For example, skateboarders were wearing old sneakers which were only available in resale stores.

    Another Day in the Ketchup Mine 2005

  • To protect the car's collectibility, should I upgrade the power with very expensive Saleen parts, or forget about long term resale and go with other superchargers that provide more bang for the buck?

    The Truth About Cars 2009

  • So in short, resale homes, existing home sales are up and new home sales are down, but I think what you need to look at also is that coming up in 2010 we're going to have, in my prediction, significantly higher inventories of homes when you look at the number of foreclosures and shortcomings that are coming.

    RealCentralVA.com 2009

  • If you like the idea of private label resale rights, but you're sick of all the low quality junk that keeps getting passed around, this collection is for you.

    Digital Point Forums dijah43610 2008

  • And it doesn’t solve the 50% to 100% drop in resale value some areas are hit with (we’re buying a house for $162K that sold for $350K two years ago).

    Matthew Yglesias » Regulating Bubbles Away 2010

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