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Definition of Auction off
1. Verb. Sell at an auction.
Category relationships: Commerce, Commercialism, Mercantilism
Generic synonyms: Sell
Derivative terms: Auction, Auctioneer, Auctioneer
Definition of Auction off
1. Verb. To sell something at an auction. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Lexicographical Neighbors of Auction Off
Literary usage of Auction off
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Spectrum Management Policy: Hearing Before the Committee on Commerce, U.S edited by W. J. Tauzin, E. J. Tauzin (1998)
"And this government says, we need some more dollars so we are going to auction
off some more spectrum and create a new competitive world for you than the ..."
2. The Modern English Verb-adverb Combination by Arthur Garfield Kennedy (1920)
"It shows riddance or extermination in auction off, buy off, call off 'to revoke,'
die off, ..."
3. The Social Welfare Forum: Official Proceedings [of The] Annual Meeting by Conference of Charities and Correction (U.S.), National Conference on Social Welfare, American Social Science Association, National Conference of Social Work (U.S.) (1900)
"... and then every morning, before business opens, the clerk vould auction off
all the unredeemed pledges to the proprietor or ¡ice versa. ..."
4. Supplemental Digest of Decisions Under the Interstate Commerce Act by Herbert Confield Lust (1917)
"474, 482. AUCTION COMPANY (a) The complainant attacked the action of the Penn.
RR in granting to the Union Fruit Auction Co. the sole right to auction off ..."
5. Proceedings of the National Conference of Charities and Correction, at the by National Conference of Charities and Correction (U.S.). Session (1900)
"... in the papers : and then every morning, before business opens, the clerk would
auction off all the unredeemed pledges to the proprietor or vice versa. ..."
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