Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun One that conducts an auction.
- transitive verb To sell at an auction.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun One whose business is to offer goods or property for sale by auction; the crier who calls for bids and strikes the bargain at an auction; a person licensed to dispose of goods or property by public sale to the highest bidder.
- To sell by auction.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- transitive verb To sell by auction; to auction.
- noun A person who sells by auction; a person whose business it is to dispose of goods or lands by public sale to the highest or best bidder.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun A person who conducts an
auction on behalf of avendor , taking bids to find the best price for the vendor. - verb transitive To
sell at an auction; toauction .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun an agent who conducts an auction
- verb sell at an auction
Etymologies
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Examples
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Ring announcer Bruce Buffer, who has a disturbing baby face with the high pompadour of an auctioneer from the cattle lots in Oklahoma, steps into the octagon to introduce the card.
Rampage 2008
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Ring announcer Bruce Buffer, who has a disturbing baby face with the high pompadour of an auctioneer from the cattle lots in Oklahoma, steps into the octagon to introduce the card.
Rampage 2008
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The auctioneer is amazing, like something out of a Tex Avery cartoon, motormouthing a mile a minute.
Boing Boing: February 26, 2006 - March 4, 2006 Archives 2006
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Mark Jaffe, the Fort York auctioneer, is a gifted motormouth who runs his tongue 95mph with wit and wild abandon.
Boing Boing: October 21, 2001 - October 27, 2001 Archives 2001
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We put 'em into Joe Stevenson's hands to sell -- that was what every one called the auctioneer -- and walked down the long street.
Robbery under Arms; a story of life and adventure in the bush and in the Australian goldfields Rolf Boldrewood 1870
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The attitude of collectors, according to Tom Eden of London coin auctioneer Morton & Eden, is "with little return on investments, what's wrong with putting money into your hobby?"
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She is the daughter of a livestock auctioneer, which is an appropriate background.
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I'm beginning to wonder if our auctioneer is the only person left on the planet who calls Master-Card by the old "Master-Charge."
grouse Diary Entry grouse 2003
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But you talked earlier about how it was kind of like a circus and the auctioneer was the ...
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"And here, " called the auctioneer, -we have one of the cathces of Kliomenes, taken near Lara.
Rogue Of Gor Norman, John, 1931- 1982
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