auction
auction is defined in Webster's Unabridged Dictionary (1913) with 2 senses, and appears in Roget's Thesaurus (1911) with 40 related terms. The full text of each entry is reproduced verbatim below.
Definitions
- 1.The things sold by auction or put up to auction. Ask you why Phryne the whole auction buys Pope. Note: In the United States, the more prevalent expression has been "sales at auction," that is, by an increase of bids (Lat. auctione). This latter form is preferable. Dutch auction, the public offer of property at a price beyond its value, then gradually lowering the price, till some one accepts it as purchaser. P. Cyc.
- 2.To sell by auction.
Source: Webster's Unabridged Dictionary, 1913 edition (public domain, via GCIDE / Project Gutenberg).
Synonyms
Related terms (Roget's 1911)
- auctioneer
- bring
- chose
- counter
- custom
- deal
- demi
- dispense
- disposal
- dispose
- effect
- est
- for
- hammer
- hawk
- into
- let
- market
- marketable
- merchant
- money
- mortgage
- off
- offer
- out
- outcry
- over
- plait
- put
- realize
- retail
- roup
- salable
- sale
- security
- sell
- seller
- the
- traffic
- turn
Source: Roget's Thesaurus, 1911 edition (public domain, via Project Gutenberg eBook #10681).
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Sources
- Definitions: Webster's Unabridged Dictionary, 1913 edition (public domain, via GCIDE / Project Gutenberg).
- Synonyms & antonyms: Roget's Thesaurus, 1911 edition (public domain, via Project Gutenberg eBook #10681).
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