resale
noun
re·sale
ˈrē-ˌsāl 
(ˌ)rē-ˈsāl
(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
The items immediately flooded resale sites over the weekend, with prices on watch marketplace Chrono24 ranging from around $1,200 to almost $6,000, at the time of writing.
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Oscar Holland, CNN Money, 18 May 2026
People were not in line for a pocket watch alone; some wanted content, others the significant resale opportunity.
—Kate Hardcastle, Forbes.com, 18 May 2026
According to the ticket analytics firm TicketData, the average price for the cheapest tickets on resale markets across all World Cup group stage games as of Friday was $553.
—Amanda Arden, CBS News, 17 May 2026
Similar resale pairs are often listed from 1988, though the exact year of Stewart’s pair was not immediately confirmed.
—Maggie Clancy, Footwear News, 16 May 2026
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Oscar Holland, CNN Money, 18 May 2026
People were not in line for a pocket watch alone; some wanted content, others the significant resale opportunity.
—Kate Hardcastle, Forbes.com, 18 May 2026
According to the ticket analytics firm TicketData, the average price for the cheapest tickets on resale markets across all World Cup group stage games as of Friday was $553.
—Amanda Arden, CBS News, 17 May 2026
Similar resale pairs are often listed from 1988, though the exact year of Stewart’s pair was not immediately confirmed.
—Maggie Clancy, Footwear News, 16 May 2026
See All Example Sentences for resale
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“Resale.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/resale. Accessed 20 May. 2026.
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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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