{
  "id": "sale.commercial",
  "term": "sale",
  "sense": "commercial",
  "pos": "noun",
  "status": "review",
  "level": 19,
  "arena": "sale",
  "domain": "commerce",
  "style": null,
  "definition": "a change where a product is transferred to a customer and payment is made",
  "folk_gloss": null,
  "emergence": {
    "components": [
      "products.goods",
      "give.transfer",
      "pay.economic",
      "customer.economic",
      "price.economic",
      "change.process",
      "payment.economic"
    ],
    "interaction": "the product is transferred to the customer while payment is exchanged",
    "novel_properties": [
      "transfer of ownership",
      "simultaneous exchange",
      "commercial reciprocity"
    ]
  },
  "examples": [
    {
      "text": "In 2023, Amazon sold 1.2 million units of the Echo Dot to U.S. customers for $49.99 each.",
      "domain": "economics"
    },
    {
      "text": "The 2017 acquisition of Whole Foods by Amazon involved the transfer of 469 stores and $13.7 billion in stock.",
      "domain": "institutions"
    },
    {
      "text": "On Black Friday 2022, Walmart processed over 25 million in-person and online transactions nationwide.",
      "domain": "everyday life"
    }
  ],
  "relations": [
    {
      "id": "event.occurrence",
      "note": "event.occurrence",
      "type": "is-a"
    }
  ],
  "used_by": [],
  "forms": [
    "sale",
    "sales"
  ],
  "closed": true,
  "provenance": {
    "author": "openrouter:openai/gpt-oss-120b",
    "date": "2026-07-29",
    "confidence": 0.6,
    "reconciled": {
      "by": "openrouter:qwen/qwen3-235b-a22b-2507",
      "date": "2026-07-31",
      "changed": "factual",
      "note": "Definition corrected to reflect factual inaccuracy: original definition used 'price is paid' which conflates price (a value) with payment (the actual resource transferred). Added missing constitutive "
    }
  },
  "canonical": "https://emergencemachine.com/tools/lexicon/what-is-the-meaning-of-sale.commercial"
}