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Definition of Auctioneer
1. Noun. An agent who conducts an auction.
2. Verb. Sell at an auction.
Category relationships: Commerce, Commercialism, Mercantilism
Generic synonyms: Sell
Derivative terms: Auction
Definition of Auctioneer
1. n. 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. v. t. To sell by auction; to auction.
Definition of Auctioneer
1. Noun. A person who conducts an auction on behalf of a vendor, taking bids to find the best price for the vendor. ¹
2. Verb. (transitive) To sell at an auction; to auction. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Auctioneer
1. [n -S]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Auctioneer
Literary usage of Auctioneer
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Merchants' Magazine and Commercial Review by William B. Dana (1862)
"JACKSON, in which the court holds that an auctioneer is nut bound to accept ...
That defendant, as an auctioneer, was holding a sale at public auction on ..."
2. A Treatise on the Effect of the Contract of Sale on the Legal Rights of by Colin Blackburn Blackburn, Benjamin Russell, William Norman Raeburn, Leonard Charles Thomas (1910)
"Although an auctioneer has authority, while the sale is going on, by general
custom recognised by the law, to sign as agent for both parties, ..."
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