A government auction or a public auction is an auction held on behalf of a government in which the property to be auctioned is either property owned by the government or property which is sold under the authority of a court of law or a government agency with similar authority.
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Examples for "public auction "
1 The holding will be sold at public auction on Thursday, November 5.
2 The museum bought the piece at public auction in 1999, officials said.
3 Mother was sold on the block at public auction in St. Louis.
4 The public auction of marriageable virgins had most likely a similar intention.
5 The monopolies are sold by public auction at so much per annum.
1 The property had been seized, and was now offered at sheriff 's sale !
2 I was sole at sheriff 's sale for debt to Massa Sparks.
3 He's been to Woodfield this afternoon, attending a sheriff 's sale there.
4 I've bought ten fifty vara lots at sheriff 's sale for five thousand dollars.
5 Call off the sheriff 's sale at the last minute; I'll pay the costs myself.
1 Costs may be high because of last year's government auction .
2 Li bought the loan for $25 million at a government auction last year.
3 A government auction of licenses for 700-megahertz spectrum for fourth-generation mobile data services is expected by September.
4 Companies can buy or trade emissions by buying allowances from other polluters, or from a government auction .
5 Televisa and NII Holding's Nextel Mexico won a chunk of spectrum in a government auction in July.
6 The joint venture was subject to winning a government auction for wireless spectrum that ended in July.
7 Commune went to a government auction .
8 Rogers is currently bidding on 700 megahertz spectrum licenses in a government auction , which will be a major expense.
9 A lacklustre government auction last year for frequency created doubts, however, that wireless will be offered to much of the population.
10 The transaction has also revived criticism surrounding assets seized from YUKOS and later bought, via a knock-down government auction , by Rosneft.
11 The company will bid at a government auction later this year for chunks of spectrum to add wireless phone to its services.
12 Vodafone India bought radio airwaves worth more than $3 billion in a government auction in February to beef up services.
13 JPMorgan Chase & Co JPM.N decided to let the government auction its warrants rather than pay a price it thought was inflated.
14 He added that Dish is still involved in a government auction for additional spectrum and could try to acquire T-Mobile as well.
15 Nextel created a splash in 2010 when it joined forces with broadcaster Televisa to bid for added airwaves in a government auction .
16 Ergen noted that anti-collusion rules will force a pause in any negotiations between applicants in the government auction starting from November 15.
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