Definition of "fire-sale" []

• Like or resembling a fire sale. (adjective)

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• "The pressure on Irish banks, which mostly have been nationalized due to losses suffered in the global downturn, to reduce their loans raised hopes among investors that they would accept fire-sale prices."
• "Howell left his fire-sale furniture for the super."
• "Another reason, according to a person familiar with the decision, was the companies couldn't sell the necessary assets at better than fire-sale prices, because buyers knew the assets had to be sold to please regulators."