estate sale

English

Noun

estate sale (plural estate sales)

  1. The sale of a person's possessions after their death, normally formalised by the executor of the estate.
    • 2024, Tommy Orange, Wandering Stars, Harvill Secker, page 121:
      She told him she’d gotten the guitar from an estate sale she’d seen on her route. When he asked what that was, she said it was when some old rich parent died at home and that parent’s children wanted to sell all their stuff.

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