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What (who) is rummage 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
rummage sale
¦ noun chiefly N. Amer. a jumble sale.
rummage sale
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A rummage sale is a sale of cheap used goods that is usually held to raise money for charity. (AM; in BRIT, use jumble 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 rummage sale
1. Other items appeared to have come from a rummage sale, or perhaps from the pile on Aunt Estelle‘s bed.
2. I, who never wear an apron, packed them for the church rummage sale, knowing that, in today‘s world, aprons have become collectors‘ items.
3. There‘s no nation involved in this war." Many historians accuse Bush of cherry–picking history to bolster his arguments, in what the late author David Halberstam last year called a "history rummage sale." One controversial example emerged during a speech at the Israeli parliament on May 15, when Bush compared talking with "terrorists and radicals," including Iran, to the appeasement of Nazis before World War II.