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What (who) is jumble sale - definition
SALE TO RAISE FUNDS FOR A GOOD CAUSE
Rummage sale; Jumble sales; Church sale; Rummage sales; Bring and Buy sale; Tabletop sale; Church bazaar; Nearly-new sale
jumble sale
¦ noun Brit. a sale of miscellaneous second-hand goods, typically for charity.
jumble sale
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A jumble sale is a sale of cheap second-hand goods, usually held to raise money for charity. (BRIT; in AM, use rummage sale
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Jumble sale
A jumble sale (UK), bring and buy sale (Australia) or rummage sale (U.S and Canada) is an event at which second hand goods are sold, usually by an institution such as a local Boys' Brigade Company, Scout group, Girlguiding group or church, as a fundraising or charitable effort.
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Jumble sale
A jumble sale (UK), bring and buy sale (Australia) or rummage sale (U.S and Canada) is an event at which second hand goods are sold, usually by an institution such as a local Boys' Brigade Company, Scout group, Girlguiding group or church, as a fundraising or charitable effort. A rummage sale by a church is called a church sale or white elephant sale, frequently as part of a church bazaar.
Garage sales usually differ from rummage sales in that they are not event-related and are often organised individually (rather than collectively).
Examples of use of jumble sale
1. Film–making is a hi–tech industry being run in the UK as a jumble sale.
2. I‘m yet to find anything that is decent quality and which doesnt look like its from the local jumble sale.
3. Compared with these, her co–star Anne Hathaway‘s $2,005 Yigal Azrouel ivory angora coat and $''5 Chanel thigh–high boots are jumble sale items.
4. When they stuck a few flyers on lamp–posts to advertise a coffee morning or a jumble sale, the villagers thought they were bringing their community together.
5. To turn up to school wearing a long jumble–sale coat, sporting a gelled Morrissey quiff and with "The Smiths" Tippexed on to your rucksack was social suicide.