The public sale of something to the highest bidder.
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Examples for "auction"
Examples for "auction"
1Germany saw subdued demand at its first auction of the year yesterday.
2Dairy farmers also received better news, with auction prices slightly up overnight.
3As a result, the authorities are opting to auction new licenses first.
4Drew said, You're welcome to come to the jewelry auction, of course.
5About five years ago, they held a Christmas auction to raise money.
1A vendue was called, and three thousand dollars in cash realized.
2Dr. Johnson, at the brewer's vendue, could not have been more learnedly sonorous.
3Even while the grand vendue was still in progress the duchess died of grief.
4The term in use for an auction then was vendue.
5The contracts for building were let out at vendue to the lowest bidder.]
1At an order from the praefect the auction sale was abruptly suspended.
2Abraham Lincoln witnessed an auction sale of slaves in his younger days.
3I don't know whether it was a auction sale or a private sale.
4The auction sale of these goods was largely attended.
5A successful auctioneer-Playinga double role-Illustratingan auction sale.
6Town & Country attracted a full house for its auction sale on the premises last Sunday.
7Various significant artworks the Aspire Exhibition's forthcoming Johannesburg auction sale in November will also be displayed.
8The auction sale was broadcast over station WOR.
9Another month had passed since the auction sale.
10Years ago I went to an auction sale.
11The third member of the pack-outfit we bought at an auction sale in rather a peculiar manner.
12The Chapmans did not buy the house, but the Manor House School did at the subsequent auction sale.
13Tells anecdotes about the auction sale.
14How much would you give, in the open market, or at an auction sale, for a second-hand fish-line?
15A typical example of a successful auction sale, perhaps, but no less exciting - or nerve-wracking - for it.
16From her note I learned that this was the day for the auction sale of the asylum personal property.
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