resale, n.
(riːˈseɪl, ˈriːseɪl)
[re- 5 a. Cf. resell v.]
1. The act of selling again (something bought).
| 1625 Bacon Ess., Riches (Arb.) 239 Monopolies, and Coemption of Wares for Resale..are great Meanes to enrich. 1816 M. Greenleaf District of Maine 71 The remainder [is held] by different individuals, who have purchased solely with a view to the profit of resales. 1852 Grote Greece ii. lxxiii. IX. 365 It was difficult to keep..what was bought and opportunity for resale did not seem at hand. 1890 Gross Gild Merch. I. 46 This enactment is particularly directed against buying for re-sale. |
2. attrib. a. resale price, the price at which a commodity is sold again; resale price maintenance, the determination by a manufacturer of a minimum price at which his goods may be sold to the consumer or ultimate user.
| 1919 C. T. Murchison Resale Price Maintenance x. 159 The rights of a patentee, by conditions of sale, to control the use of his article even after it has passed from him and is in the hands of the vendee, is..unqualifiedly upheld and the dicta of the Court are certainly not hostile to the idea of resale price maintenance. 1929 Congress. Rec. LXX. 2431 A communication from the chairman of the Federal Trade Commission, transmitting a report of that commission on Resale Price Maintenance. 1936 Publishers' Weekly 12 Dec. 2298/2 Compare report of the Federal Trade Commission on resale price maintenance, 70th Cong. 2d Sess. H. Doc. No. 546. 1940 Economist 14 Sept. 332/1 Most newspapers were generally in favour of resale-price agreements with boycotting clauses. 1945 Economica XII. 228 The trading stamp is primarily the product of resale price maintenance. 1967 Listener 27 July 104/3 Price-cutting of chocolate and sweets begins following abolition of resale price maintenance. 1973 Guardian 1 June 12/1 Mr Heath..made his reputation at the Board of Trade partly on the abolition of resale price maintenance. |
b. In sense ‘second-hand’.
| 1960 Farmer & Stockbreeder 29 Mar. (Suppl.) 13/2 Every one of your surplus jute sacks has a good re-sale value. 1967 Boston Sunday Herald 26 Mar. i. 38/8 The offices opposite Fisherman's Beach, Swampscott, will specialize in both new and resale homes. 1970 Globe & Mail (Toronto) 26 Sept. b2/3 The supply of money is good for conventional mortgages on resale houses. 1975 M. Bradbury History Man iii. 40 It's a very sound residential area.., you'd keep your resale value. 1977 New Yorker 24 Oct. 39/2 I'm conducting here a gents' resale business. Ibid. 40/3 You were in a gentlemen's resale shop. |