Term: sheriff's sale: a sale of property by the sheriff under authority of a court's writ of execution in order satisfy an unpaid obligation
Candidate hypernym: sale: an agreement (or contract) in which property is transferred from the seller (vendor) to the buyer (vendee) for a fixed price in money (paid or agreed to be paid by the buyer) → 1
Candidate hypernym: injunction: (law) a judicial remedy issued in order to prohibit a party from doing or continuing to do a certain activity → 0
Candidate hypernym: butyric acid: an unpleasant smelling fatty acid found especially in butter → 0
Candidate hypernym: bitartrate: an acid tartrate; a hydrogen tartrate → 0
Candidate hypernym: moiety: one of two (approximately) equal parts → 0
Candidate hypernym: wax: any of various substances of either mineral origin or plant or animal origin; they are solid at normal temperatures and insoluble in water → 0
Candidate hypernym: phoronid: hermaphrodite wormlike animal living in mud of the sea bottom → 0
Candidate hypernym: dinornithiformes: a ratite bird order: recently extinct flightless birds of New Zealand → 0
Candidate hypernym: delayer: a person who delays; to put off until later or cause to be late → 0
Candidate hypernym: left field: the piece of ground in the outfield on the catcher's left → 0
Candidate hypernym: angioplasty: an operation to repair a damaged blood vessel or unblock a coronary artery → 0