resale

noun

re·​sale ˈrē-ˌsāl  (ˌ)rē-ˈsāl 

1

: the act of selling again usually to a new party

2

a

: a secondhand sale

b

: an additional sale to the same buyer

Examples of resale in a Sentence

They earned thousands of dollars on resales of the baseball tickets.

He buys baseball collectibles and then holds them for resale.

The resale price of the car is $8,000.

Recent Examples on the Web

To tap into this consumer behavior Pacun launched PS Vintage, a resale platform co-developed with Springy, a leader in online secondhand retail. —Angela Velasquez, Footwear News, 15 June 2026

Authentic bags have fetched prices ranging from hundreds of dollars to more than $1,000 on the resale market. —Michele Laufik, Martha Stewart, 15 June 2026

The bad news is, ticket prices for the next two USA World Cup games spiked on resale sites. —Michelle Kaufman, Miami Herald, 13 June 2026

The higher-than-usual NJ Transit fares add to the already-exorbitant prices for tickets to the World Cup games themselves, with some tickets to the final being advertised for more than $30,000 apiece on resale platforms. —Tom Huddleston Jr. juhohn Lee, CNBC, 12 June 2026

Word History

First Known Use

1598, in the meaning defined at sense 1

Rhymes for resale

• airmail
• assail
• avail
• bewail
• blackmail
• cattail
• cocktail
• curtail
• derail
• detail
• dovetail
• email

Kids Definition

resale

noun

re·​sale ˈrē-ˌsāl 

(ˈ)rē-ˈsā(ə)l

: the act or an instance of selling again

Legal Definition

resale

noun

re·​sale ˈrē-ˌsāl, ˌrē-ˈsāl 

: the act or an instance of selling again

specifically : the selling of goods again by the same seller by right and after a breach by the original buyer

a purchaser that buys in good faith at a resale takes the goods free of any rights of the original buyer

—Uniform Commercial Code

resalable

ˌrē-ˈsā-lə-bəl 

adjective