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.
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The Michigan House voted nearly unanimously in June to approve legislation aimed at cracking down on bots that purchase tickets in bulk, inflating demand and resale prices.
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Jessie Opoien, jsonline.com, 3 Oct. 2025
Building on this foundation, Uniqlo is now looking beyond donations — advancing fiber-to-fiber technologies and scaling up resale — to address evolving consumer expectations.
—Chizuru Muko, Footwear News, 2 Oct. 2025
Online resale also generates emissions from shipping and packaging, and running massive e-commerce platforms consumes energy, all factors that need to be considered, said Alana James, a fashion professor at Northumbria University.
—Nick Lichtenberg, Fortune, 1 Oct. 2025
But Hertz's biggest resale channel is consumers, the company said.
—Robert Ferris, CNBC, 30 Sep. 2025
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Jessie Opoien, jsonline.com, 3 Oct. 2025
Building on this foundation, Uniqlo is now looking beyond donations — advancing fiber-to-fiber technologies and scaling up resale — to address evolving consumer expectations.
—Chizuru Muko, Footwear News, 2 Oct. 2025
Online resale also generates emissions from shipping and packaging, and running massive e-commerce platforms consumes energy, all factors that need to be considered, said Alana James, a fashion professor at Northumbria University.
—Nick Lichtenberg, Fortune, 1 Oct. 2025
But Hertz's biggest resale channel is consumers, the company said.
—Robert Ferris, CNBC, 30 Sep. 2025
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“Resale.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/resale. Accessed 7 Oct. 2025.
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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
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