public sale

American  

noun

1. auction.

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Etymology

Origin of public sale

First recorded in 1670–80

Example Sentences

And issuers and their affiliates will be limited from selling any tokens—either privately or on exchanges—for six months after the public sale on Coinbase.

From The Wall Street Journal • Nov. 10, 2025

"We hope everyone will think carefully about the impact of fireworks and support our call for a national ban on their public sale."

From BBC • Nov. 4, 2025

Presale tickets are now available for $75 for general admission, while the public sale for the daylong event begins March 15 with tickets ranging from $65 to $175.

From Seattle Times • Mar. 14, 2024

Henry Wellcome, the voracious American-born British pharmaceutical entrepreneur who amassed a collection of more than a million scientific and archaeological artifacts during his lifetime, bought several at a 1928 public sale.

From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 5, 2024

I will sell at public sale, at my farm near Somers, Wis., at above time and place, my entire herd of Thoroughbred Short-horn cattle, numbering forty head.

From Prairie Farmer, Vol. 56: No. 4, January 26, 1884 A Weekly Journal for the Farm, Orchard and Fireside by Various