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/sayl/, n.1. the act of selling.2. a quantity sold.3. opportunity to sell; demand: slow sale.4. a special disposal of goods, as at reduced prices.5. transfer of property for money or credit.6. an auction.7. for sale, offered to be sold; made available to purchasers.8. on sale, able to be bought at reduced prices.
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Located at the mouth of the Bou Regreg River, opposite Rabat, it was founded in the 10th century and reached its peak as a merchant port. After 1627 Salé, with Rabat as its vassal, became the corsair republic of Bou Regreg and the base for the Sallee Corsairs, the most dreaded of the Barbary Coast pirates. The two cities grew together until the Bou Regreg silted up and Salé port was closed. It has many mosques and mausoleums; its greatest shrine is the tomb of Sīdī ʽAbd Allāh ibn Ḥasan, the city's patron saint.* * *
coastal city, southeastern Victoria, Australia. It lies along the Thomson River near the latter's junction with the Macalister. Sale is the major regional centre for East Gippsland, an irrigated area of intensive farming and livestock raising. Founded in 1845, the settlement was named after Sir Robert (“Fighting Bob”) Sale, a British general who fought in India. It grew as an early river port and became successively a borough (1863), town (1924), and city (1950).Sale is connected to Melbourne (115 miles [185 km] west) by rail and is on the Gippsland and Prince's highways. Its industries include foundry and joinery working, plastics and other manufacturing, and a gas absorption plant fed from the gas field in Bass Strait with a pipe link to Melbourne. The city is near the Gippsland Lakes (lagoons) and the Ninety Mile Beach of the south coast, and tourism is an added source of income. It is also an educational centre and the seat of Anglican and Roman Catholic bishoprics. Pop. (2001) urban centre, 13,366.* * *
Universalium. 2010.
