rummage sale vs sale

rummage sale and sale both are nouns.

Word	Noun	Adjective	Verb	Adverb
rummage sale	Yes	No	No	No
sale	Yes	No	No	No

As nouns, sale is a hypernym of rummage sale; that is, sale is a word with a broader meaning than rummage sale:

Other hypernyms of rummage sale include cut-rate sale, sales event.

rummage sale (noun)	sale (noun)
a sale of donated articles	a particular instance of selling
	an occasion (usually brief) for buying at specially reduced prices
	the general activity of selling
	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)
	the state of being purchasable; offered or exhibited for selling