Definition of auction

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Auction (n.) A public sale of property to the highest bidder, esp. by a person licensed and authorized for the purpose; a vendue..

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Upholder :: Upholder (n.) A broker or auctioneer; a tradesman.
Auction :: Auction (n.) A public sale of property to the highest bidder, esp. by a person licensed and authorized for the purpose; a vendue..
Sale :: Sale (v. t.) Public disposal to the highest bidder, or exposure of goods in market; auction..
Auctionary :: Auctionary (a.) Of or pertaining to an auction or an auctioneer.
Auction :: Auction (n.) The things sold by auction or put up to auction.
Bid :: Bid (n.) An offer of a price, especially at auctions; a statement of a sum which one will give for something to be received, or will take for something to be done or furnished; that which is offered..
Cant :: Cant (v. t.) to sell by auction, or bid a price at a sale by auction..
Auctioneer :: Auctioneer (v. t.) To sell by auction; to auction.
Bonnet :: Bonnet (n.) An accomplice of a gambler, auctioneer, etc., who entices others to bet or to bid; a decoy..
Bidding :: Bidding (n.) The act or process of making bids; an offer; a proposal of a price, as at an auction..
Cant :: Cant (n.) A call for bidders at a public sale; an auction.
Portsale :: Portsale (n.) Public or open sale; auction.
Upset :: Upset (a.) Set up; fixed; determined; -- used chiefly or only in the phrase upset price; that is, the price fixed upon as the minimum for property offered in a public sale, or, in an auction, the price at which property is set up or started by the auctioneer, and the lowest price at which it will be sold..
Roup :: Roup (v. i. & t.) To cry or shout; hence, to sell by auction..
Market :: Market (n.) A meeting together of people, at a stated time and place, for the purpose of traffic (as in cattle, provisions, wares, etc.) by private purchase and sale, and not by auction; as, a market is held in the town every week..
By-bidder :: By-bidder (n.) One who bids at an auction in behalf of the auctioneer or owner, for the purpose of running up the price of articles..
Vendue :: Vendue (n.) A public sale of anything, by outcry, to the highest bidder; an auction..
Avail :: Avail (n.) Proceeds; as, the avails of a sale by auction..
Roup :: Roup (n.) An outcry; hence, a sale of gods by auction..
Subhepatic :: Subhastation (n.) A public sale or auction.
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