distress merchandise

distress merchandise

noun Commerce.
1.
goods sold below the prevailing price in order to raise cash quickly or to meet some other financial emergency.
2.
damaged goods sold below fair-trade prices.
Also, distressed merchandise.
Also called distressed goods.
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Distress merchandise is always a great word to know.
So is interrobang. Does it mean:
a scrap or morsel of food left at a meal.
a printed punctuation mark (‽), available only in some typefaces, designed to combine the question mark (?) and the exclamation point (!), indicating a mixture of query and interjection, as after a rhetorical question.
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distress merchandise
 
n
(US) goods sold at reduced prices in order to pay overdue debts, etc

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