"flash sale" meaning in English

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    {
      "form": "flash sales",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
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      "expansion": "flash sale (countable and uncountable, plural flash sales)",
      "name": "en-noun"
    }
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  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
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          "langcode": "en",
          "name": "Business",
          "orig": "en:Business",
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      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "2022 September 7, Philip Haigh, “Comment: More strikes and poor morale”, in RAIL, number 965, page 3",
          "text": "Northern is one operator that is moving to combat the perception of rising fares, as it runs its flash sale of one million tickets for £1. This runs until October 20, or while stocks last.",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "A sale of merchandise where the prices are greatly reduced, but lasting for only a short period of time."
      ],
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          "business",
          "business"
        ],
        [
          "sale",
          "sale"
        ],
        [
          "merchandise",
          "merchandise"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(business) A sale of merchandise where the prices are greatly reduced, but lasting for only a short period of time."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "countable",
        "uncountable"
      ],
      "topics": [
        "business"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "flash sale"
}

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    {
      "form": "flash sales",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
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        "1": "~"
      },
      "expansion": "flash sale (countable and uncountable, plural flash sales)",
      "name": "en-noun"
    }
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  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
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        "English lemmas",
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      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "2022 September 7, Philip Haigh, “Comment: More strikes and poor morale”, in RAIL, number 965, page 3",
          "text": "Northern is one operator that is moving to combat the perception of rising fares, as it runs its flash sale of one million tickets for £1. This runs until October 20, or while stocks last.",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "A sale of merchandise where the prices are greatly reduced, but lasting for only a short period of time."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "business",
          "business"
        ],
        [
          "sale",
          "sale"
        ],
        [
          "merchandise",
          "merchandise"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(business) A sale of merchandise where the prices are greatly reduced, but lasting for only a short period of time."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "countable",
        "uncountable"
      ],
      "topics": [
        "business"
      ]
    }
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  "word": "flash sale"
}