cut-rate sale

1. 1.

   an occasion (usually brief) for buying at specially reduced prices

   “they held a sale to reduce their inventory”

   “I got some great bargains at their annual sale”

   Synonymssalesales event

   Broaderoccasion

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Questions about cut-rate sale

What does cut-rate sale mean?

cut-rate sale means "an occasion (usually brief) for buying at specially reduced prices".

What is another word for cut-rate sale?

Close synonyms include sale, sales event. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is cut-rate sale a common word?

cut-rate sale is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.