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Definition of Auction
1. Noun. A variety of bridge in which tricks made in excess of the contract are scored toward game; now generally superseded by contract bridge.
2. Verb. Sell at an auction.
Category relationships: Commerce, Commercialism, Mercantilism
Generic synonyms: Sell
Derivative terms: Auctioneer, Auctioneer
3. Noun. The public sale of something to the highest bidder.
Generic synonyms: Sale
Examples of category: Upset Price, Bid, Offer, Tender, By-bid, Overbid, Underbid, Outbid, Underbid
Derivative terms: Auctioneer
Definition of Auction
1. n. A public sale of property to the highest bidder, esp. by a person licensed and authorized for the purpose; a vendue.
2. v. t. To sell by auction.
Definition of Auction
1. Noun. A public event where goods or property are sold to the highest bidder. ¹
2. Verb. To sell at an auction. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Auction
1. to sell publicly to the highest bidder [v -ED, -ING, -S]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Auction
Literary usage of Auction
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Real Estate Principles and Practices by Philip Adolphus Benson, Nelson Luther North (1922)
"CHAPTER VI auction SALES Definition and kinds of auction sales.—An auction sale
is a public sale to any person bidding the highest price, upon terms and ..."
2. American Book Prices Current (1904)
"Sold in New York by The Anderson auction Co. December 29, 1903. A Miscellaneous
Collection. Sold in New York by The Anderson auction Co. January 5, 1904. ..."
3. A History of the People of the United States: From the Revolution to the by John Bach McMaster (1895)
"PACKAGE SALES AT auction. and selling had been conducted in an orderly way.
The importer would send to the foreign maker orders for such goods as suited the ..."
4. Transactions by Glasgow Archaeological Society, Johnson Society (1883)
"A CATALOGUE OF BOOKS, To be sold by way of auction in the Coffee-House of ...
Days before the auction begin, Catalogues are to be had at the Coffee-house. ..."
5. Reports of Cases Argued and Determined in the High Court of Chancery: During by Great Britain Court of Chancery, Edward Thurlow Thurlow, Alexander Wedderburn Rosslyn, Jonathan Cogswell Perkins (1845)
"Though a paper, as the Particular upon a sale by auction, may by reference be
... The sale was made by auction, on the 4th of December, 1804, in seven lots ..."
6. Encyclopaedia Britannica, a Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, Literature and edited by Hugh Chisholm (1910)
"An auction (Lat. audio t Increase) is a proceeding at which people are invited
to compete for the purchase of property by successive offers of advancing ..."
7. Commentaries on American Law by James Kent, William Hardcastle Browne (1894)
"In the sale of real property at auction, the description should be accurate, ...
A bidding at an auction may be withdrawn before the hammer is down. ..."
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