fire sale in English

noun
1
a sale of goods remaining after the destruction of commercial premises by fire.
Thanks to a fire sale at his local public library in Weston, Massachusetts, he picked up several books by J. Edgar Hoover and Whittaker Chambers on the communist threat.

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1. Your fire sale is over.

2. 5 Products in the current fire sale!

3. 3 The fire sale was cynical stuff, all right.

4. 4 Chrysler's sales surge has not required fire sale prices.

5. 17 Howell picked up whatever furniture he needed at a Bronx fire sale.

6. 2 The company was forced to have a fire sale of its assets.

7. 8 The third rally started in March, after the fire sale Bear Stearns.

8. 7 This is the fire sale of a continent lurching from the farm to the factory.

9. 11 So why is National still so fixated on asset fire sale failures of the past?

10. 18 So the company did what you do in such a situation. It announced a fire sale.

11. 16 Clearly, much depends on the price Lehman can get for its troubled assets in fire sale.

12. 13 Everything from boxes of pencils to an aircraft carrier is to be cleared out in an emergency fire sale .

13. 20 The automaker is weighing yet another round of layoffs — and maybe even a fire sale of venerable brands like Buick and Pontiac.

14. 9 The result has been a kind of national fire sale, with companies and local-government-affiliated investment companies selling off assets to meet their debts.

15. 15 BARC.L) got a $2 billion "windfall profit" from excess assets it took control of in the fire sale of Lehman's U.S. brokerage business a year ago.

16. In sum, Carpetbaggers were seen as insidious Northern outsiders with questionable objectives meddling in local politics, buying up plantations at fire-sale prices and taking advantage of Southerners

17. 12 Tablets of most of its competitors are gathering dust or being sold at fire sale prices, as Hewlett-Packard was forced to do when it exited the business entirely.

18. A sovereign bailout should provide breathing space to perform a radical restructuring.But a fire sale of Irish banking assets is not the only way to cut the banks down to size.

19. 14 A sovereign bailout should provide breathing space to perform a radical restructuring.But a fire sale of Irish banking assets is not the only way to cut the banks down to size.

20. 6 And the federal fire sale may not be limited to problem portfolios at home; there are reports that some of those entities subject to Treasury's purchase-and-resale powers may be foreign.

21. 19 In theory privatisation has the scope to restructure the economy,[www.Sentencedict.com] but a fire sale risks letting the choicest assets fall into the hands of cronies who will manipulate regulation to suit themselves.

22. Besides, the United States can now borrow money from the rest of the world at fire-sale rates. Interest on the ten-year Treasury bill is now under 2%. That's an almost unprecedented deal.