tax sale
Americannoun
Etymology
Origin of tax sale
An Americanism dating back to 1825–35
Example Sentences
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The tax sale is an annual auction at which the city sells the rights to collect past-due property taxes.
From Washington Post • May 1, 2022
If the homeowner didn’t file a written response to the notice within 15 days, the court would allow the city to list the property for tax sale without a hearing, Sgro said.
From Seattle Times • Mar. 15, 2022
It had been put up for tax sale four times but had no takers.
From Salon • Feb. 6, 2022
The upcoming online delinquent tax sale lists 43% of properties as vacant.
From Seattle Times • Apr. 24, 2021
The barber had bought the house at a tax sale at a time of great financial distress, twenty years before, for five hundred dollars.
From The Colonel's Dream by Chesnutt, Charles W. (Charles Waddell)
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