resale
/ˈriˌseɪl/noun
resale is a noun meaning “Sale of something previously bought” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is spelled R-E-S-A-L-E and has 2 syllables, and it appears 1.9 times per million words in written English (wordfreq, 2021 data). The plural of resale is resales.
What does resale mean?
noun
- 1
Sale of something previously bought.
They bought the contents of the locker for resale.
- 2
The sale by the original seller to another purchaser of goods due to non-payment by original purchaser, often with the original purchaser liable for any shortfall between the original sale price and the price realized by the original seller.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How do you pronounce resale?
- UK /ˈriːseɪl/
- US /ˈriˌseɪl/
Resale has 2 syllables (counted from its American pronunciation in the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary).
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Recordings: LL-Q1860_(eng)-Vealhurl-resale.wav, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).
Forms of resale
- resales plural
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How common is resale?
Resale appears 1.9 times per million words in written English, the 20,101st most frequent word form in the list.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).
Resale in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese
In the sense sale of something previously bought:
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Translations are Wiktionary's, by sense; a linked word has its own PlainSpell page.
Where does resale come from?
From re- + sale.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).