relisting

3.6

Putting something up for sale again after it failed to sell

noun
/ˌriːˈlɪstɪŋ/

: relistado

After the item failed to sell at the auction, the seller decided to go for a second round and began the relisting process.

Examples

The artist's painting was so popular that after the first auction ended without a sale, they quickly arranged for its relisting.
And in more times than not, these listings end up relisting with another agent after about one to three weeks.
If the NRM gray wolf loses ESA protection permanently and harvesting reduces the population to minimum legal levels, it will very likely decline rapidly to the point where it will, by federal law, require relisting.

Academic text (2009)
Despite Idaho and Montana's newly promised target populations of several hundred individuals, each state must maintain only 150 wolves in 15 packs to forestall USFWS relisting under the ESA.

Academic text (2009)
Following a month without any offers, he chose to relisting his house at a lower price.

Antonyms

withdrawal

Formal

13 5.0

Leaving a group, country, or agreement

Surface Forms

relisting singular

relistings plural

Morphology

relisting = relist (transparent) = re + list + ing

This is a regular noun or event formation from the verb 'relist' meaning the act or process of doing it.

Etymology

Relisting comes from the prefix re- meaning 'again' and listing, from list meaning 'a record of things for sale'. So a relisting is simply putting an item on the sale list again to try to sell it.