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auction English

Meaning auction meaning

What does auction mean?
Definitions in simple English

auction Noun

— An auction is a sale where the goods are sold to the person who offers the most money. She wanted to sell her house at auction because she hoped to get a higher price.

auction Verb

— To auction is to sell goods to the person who offers the most money. He auctioned the house on Saturday morning.

auction

— noun a variety of bridge in which tricks made in excess of the contract are scored toward game; now generally superseded by contract bridge — noun the public sale of something to the highest bidder — verb sell at an auction

Synonyms auction synonyms

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auction English » English

vendue public sale auction off auctioneer auction sale put to auction bid auction bridge sell by auction roup bidding tender selling to highest bidders sell at an auction sale by auction sale put up to auction put up for auction put on sale public auction mortgage knock down go to the hammer dealer contest competitive sale bring under the hammer be up for auction be under the hammer bazaar auction selling

Conjugation auction conjugation

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auction · verb

Examples auction examples

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Simple sentences

I obtained the painting at an auction.
The furniture was bought at an auction.
The famous oil painting was sold at the auction for 2 million dollars.
The auction is over.
Imogen of the Internet is fighting six bored housewives to win an eBay auction for a bag of premium chai tea.
I met Tom at a wine auction a few years ago.
I met Tom at an auction a few years ago.
My friend picked up a bargain at a seized car auction last week.
Tom bought this horse at an auction.

Movie subtitles

In a little while we're gonna hold an auction sale at Cocoanut Manor, the suburb terrible. uh, beautiful.
There's gonna be entertainment, sandwiches and the auction.
I'm going to hold an auction in a little while in Cocoanut Manor.
You know what an auction is, eh?
I come from Italy on the Atlantic Auction.
I say I'm holding an auction at Cocoanut Manor.
Well, maybe we can cut out the auction.
Let's get the auction started before we get a tornado.
Well, the auction is practically over.
The old lady will put it up to auction.
Seeing you yesterday at the auction did seem rotten.
I got them in an auction.
It's got inside springs. I bought it in an auction.
I'm going to an auction this afternoon.
They grabbed a building in Canarsie at an auction through a holding company that we were able to link.
I will put you up for public auction!
This is known as auction pinochle.
I bought it in an auction.
So perhaps this will be sold again someday at an auction after my death.
Gentlemen, let's begin the auction.
Caroline Meade, how can you let your husband conduct this slave auction!
Right this way to the greatest auction of the year.
I bought that at an auction.
I still have two years, eight months and six days left in which to make musical boxes that will be sold at auction for the benefit of this delightful sanctuary.
Now these beautiful little musical boxes only arrived this morning and I didn't intend to put them on the auction block until later but I'm going to sell them now.
I picked this up yesterday at an auction room in Knightsbridge, paid only two pounds for it.
Say, yesterday I went to Mr. Furusawa's place to bid in the auction, but I was told he wasn't at home.
I went to the auction yesterday.
I went to the auction to bid. and I wept.
Sir, it is unthinkable.. That the Pyncheon birth-rite should be put upon the auction block.

News and current affairs

At what many perceived to be a rigged auction, the company's best assets were sold off to a previously unknown bidder and are now back in the hands of the Russian state.
After nearly ten years, when no museum or private buyer met his price, the man put Icarosaurus up for sale at auction - a shock to the world of paleontology.
Icarosaurus was rescued from the auction block by a philanthropic and conservation-minded businessman repelled by the thought that such valuable treasures could be lost to science and education.
First, in Latin America's privatization gold rush, everything from public utilities to manufacturing companies went on the auction block.
And, in many areas - such as antitrust analysis, auction design, taxation, environmental policy, and industrial and financial regulation - policy applications have come to be considered the domain of specialists.
But the market price would depend especially on how much insurance a government decided to auction off, because the supply would influence the price both directly and through the insurance's effect on the underlying recession risks.
The process does not constitute a unified, reasoned debate so much as an ongoing political auction in which special interests seek votes for the policy change that will benefit them.
On its re-auction, Ukraine received more than five times the amount that had been paid through that insider deal.
The lesson in the open Kryvorizhstal auction is clear: if a president may not act willfully, arbitrarily, by personal prerogative, then no one may.
Every single Treasury auction, at which the market gobbles up huge new tranches of US Treasury debt at high prices, belies the argument that the economy has too much debt.
It is then put up for auction and repurchased by agents who in turn sell it to another unlicensed immigrant.
As many economists, notably Jeffrey Frankel, have shown, prices on these markets are established by an auction-like process; as a result, commodity markets transmit the effects of monetary expansion particularly quickly.
The securities are hard to value but the sellers know more about them than the buyer: in any auction process the Treasury would end up with the dregs.
Elections are a choice, not an auction between competing lists of promises, with victory simply going to the highest bidder.
The IMF authors are not saying that governments should do this with recession insurance, so perhaps they mean that governments would auction off the policies, which would create a market price.
Moreover, the CBR scheduled a special auction for such loans on December 15 - with the total amount of the loans similar to that of Rosneft's bond issue.
So why was the Hirst auction such a success?
Instead, the company opted for an electronic auction in which anyone could participate.
Foreclosed property is generally sold at auction, guaranteeing that there will be a buyer - but driving down prices.

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