: heavily discounted
fire-sale prices
: a sale of merchandise damaged in a fire
also
: a sale at very low prices
Examples of fire-sale in a Sentence
Noun
The company is having a fire sale of its old office equipment.
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Preston Fore, Fortune, 10 July 2025
By Steven Church, Bloomberg A portfolio of valuable California properties, including a hotel in the exclusive enclave of Laguna Beach, may be forced into liquidation at fire-sale prices because of a bitter court fight between the owners.
—Bloomberg, Mercury News, 2 July 2025
Luke Smith, New York Times, 11 July 2025
All those assets were now being seized, and Fox feared a fire sale.
—Chris Yogerst, HollywoodReporter, 3 July 2025
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Adjective
These traders then built a massive mortgage portfolio which quickly blew up when the 2008 crisis hit, with Merrill losing billions practically overnight and forced into a fire-sale merger with Bank of America.
—Preston Fore, Fortune, 10 July 2025
By Steven Church, Bloomberg A portfolio of valuable California properties, including a hotel in the exclusive enclave of Laguna Beach, may be forced into liquidation at fire-sale prices because of a bitter court fight between the owners.
—Bloomberg, Mercury News, 2 July 2025
Noun
In six years, Horner had taken Red Bull from a £1 fire sale to double world champions.
—Luke Smith, New York Times, 11 July 2025
All those assets were now being seized, and Fox feared a fire sale.
—Chris Yogerst, HollywoodReporter, 3 July 2025
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“Fire-sale.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/fire-sale. Accessed 24 Jul. 2025.
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