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nonsale en · ADJ

Etymology

From non- + sale.

Meanings

  1. (not-comparable) Not of or pertaining to selling.
  2. (not-comparable) Not part of a sale where goods are discounted.
    • Customers who made purchases at Moss’s recent sale, held in a rented space around the corner, were given a card entitling them to a 15 percent discount on nonsale items in the store that are $500 or more, and items left over from the sale are being sold online as “Web specials,” Mr. Getchell said, which “is very odd for us — we never did it before.” 2009 January 29, Marianne Rohrlich, “The Retailers’ View”, in New York Times: