Resale
nounThe selling of something a second time, after it has already been bought once.
How to spell resale
6 letters · 2 syllables
How to pronounce resale
Say the part in capitals loudest.
What does resale mean?
- nounThe selling of something a second time, after it has already been bought once.
Resale in a sentence
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The contract restricts the resale of the tickets to other fans.
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Furniture in good condition holds a strong resale value.
Where does resale come from?
Language of origin: Germanic
This is a transparent English compound, built by attaching the productive prefix re-, meaning 'again' or 'back', to the noun 'sale'. The base word 'sale' descends from Old English 'sala', meaning the act of selling, which is closely related to the verb 'sell' (Old English 'sellan', originally 'to give' before it narrowed to giving in exchange for money). The prefix re- itself came into English from Latin, where it signalled repetition or a backward motion, and it has long been freely stitched onto native English words. 'Resale' emerged in this straightforward way to name a second selling of something already bought, and it became common in commercial English from the seventeenth century onward. The spelling is honest to its parts: the single -s- belongs to 'sale', so there is no doubling and no hidden letter, only the everyday word 'sale' with 're' in front.
How the word is built
- re- (again)
- sale (the act of selling, from Old English sala)
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