auctioneer
auctioneer 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.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.
- 2.To sell by auction; to auction. Estates . . . advertised and auctioneered away. Cowper.
Source: Webster's Unabridged Dictionary, 1913 edition (public domain, via GCIDE / Project Gutenberg).
Synonyms
Related terms (Roget's 1911)
- advocate
- agent
- ambassador
- arbitrator
- attache
- attorney
- auction
- bagman
- bailiff
- bring
- broker
- business
- charge
- chose
- clerk
- commercial
- commissary
- commission
- commissionaire
- commissioner
- committee
- consignee
- consul
- corps
- correspondent
- counter
- curator
- custom
- deal
- delegate
- demi
- deputy
- diplomat
- diplomate
- diplomatist
- director
- dispense
- disposal
- dispose
- drummer
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: Roget's Thesaurus, 1911 edition (public domain, via Project Gutenberg eBook #10681).
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