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

Despite the risk of purchasing through a third-party platform such as StubHub, many fans opted to do so to avoid the 30% FIFA resale tax, believing that the Fan Protect Guarantee would safeguard their order. — Lily Wright, Los Angeles Times, 9 July 2026

Burda Principal Investments, which had also backed secondhand resale giant Vinted, led the investment with participation from eBay, FJ Labs, and H14, alongside existing investors Andreessen Horowitz, HV Capital, and Y Combinator. — Roy Stephen Canivel, Footwear News, 9 July 2026

Without a physical option, Ching said, price-sensitive consumers have nowhere to go but Sony’s own storefront, absorbing the full price with no alternative in the resale space. — Mia Osmonbekov, Fortune, 9 July 2026

Manhattan resale condos illustrate the timing problem clearly. — John Walkup, Forbes.com, 8 July 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