HyperDic: sheriff[s_sale

English > 1 sense of the expression sheriff's sale:
NOUNcommunicationsheriff's sale, execution sale, judicial sale, forced salea sale of property by the sheriff under authority of a court's writ of execution in order satisfy an unpaid obligation
English > sheriff's sale: 1 sense > noun 1, communication
MeaningA sale of property by the sheriff under authority of a court's writ of execution in order satisfy an unpaid obligation.
Synonymsexecution sale, judicial sale, forced sale
Broadersale, sales agreementAn agreement (or contract) in which property is transferred from the seller (vendor) to the buyer (vendee) for a fixed price in money (paid or agreed to be paid by the buyer)

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