execution sale

1. 1.

   a sale of property by the sheriff under authority of a court's writ of execution in order satisfy an unpaid obligation

   Synonymssheriff's salejudicial saleforced sale

   Broadersale

Questions about execution sale

What does execution sale mean?

execution sale means "a sale of property by the sheriff under authority of a court's writ of execution in order satisfy an unpaid obligation".

What is another word for execution sale?

Close synonyms include sheriff's sale, judicial sale, forced sale. 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.