going-out-of-business sale

Definitions of going-out-of-business sale
  1. noun
    a sale of all the tangible assets of a business that is about to close
    “during the Great Depression going-out-of-business sales were very common”
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    type of:
    cut-rate sale, sale, sales event
    an occasion (usually brief) for buying at specially reduced prices
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