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auction
[ awk-shuhn ]
noun
- Also called public sale. a publicly held sale at which property or goods are sold to the highest bidder.
- Cards.
- (in bridge or certain other games) the competitive bidding to fix a contract that a player or players undertake to fulfill.
verb (used with object)
- to sell by auction (often followed by off ):
He auctioned off his furniture.
auction
/ ˈɔːʃə /
noun
- a public sale of goods or property, esp one in which prospective purchasers bid against each other until the highest price is reached Compare Dutch auction
- the competitive calls made in bridge and other games before play begins, undertaking to win a given number of tricks if a certain suit is trumps
- See auction bridge
verb
- troften foll byoff to sell by auction
Other Word Forms
- ܳtDz·· adjective
- ܳtDz·y adjective
- ·ܳtDz adjective
- ܲ·ܳtDzԱ adjective
Word History and Origins
Word History and Origins
Origin of auction1
Example Sentences
I was summoned to see Flower and, as I was on the way out of the door, KP told me to tell Flower I was entering the auction whether he liked it or not.
Simon Hucker, from the Lyon & Turnbull auction house in London, said Going To The Mill was from a time when Lowry found his "unique voice" as an artist.
Suryavanshi became the youngest player to be signed by an IPL team when he was picked up at the auction after a bidding war last year.
Instead, Carr stressed making electromagnetic spectrum available for commercial use through public auctions, a program that had largely stalled under President Biden.
Meanwhile a letter written by one of most well-known survivors of the Titanic disaster, Colonel Archibald Gracie, sold for a record breaking £300,000 at the auction.
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