fire sale

1. 1.

   a sale of assets at very low prices typically when the seller faces bankruptcy

   Broadersale
2. 2.

   a sale of merchandise supposedly damaged by fire

   Broadersale

Questions about fire sale

What does fire sale mean?

fire sale means "a sale of assets at very low prices typically when the seller faces bankruptcy". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

Is fire sale a common word?

fire sale is banded "Uncommon" — turns up in careful writing rather than conversation. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.