sheriff's 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

   Synonymsexecution salejudicial saleforced sale

   Broadersale

Questions about sheriff's sale

What does sheriff's sale mean?

sheriff's 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 sheriff's sale?

Close synonyms include execution 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.