Auction

What do we mean by auction?

A public sale in which property or items of merchandise are sold to the highest bidder. noun

To sell at or by an auction. transitive verb

The act of increasing; increase; growth. Bailey. noun

A public sale in which each bidder offers an increase on the previous bid, the highest bidder becoming the purchaser. noun

The property or goods put up for sale at auction. noun

To sell by auction: commonly used with off.

To sell by auction. transitive verb

A public sale of property to the highest bidder, esp. by a person licensed and authorized for the purpose; a vendue. noun

The things sold by auction or put up to auction. noun

The public offer of property at a price beyond its value, then gradually lowering the price, till some one accepts it as purchaser. noun

A public event where goods or property are sold to the highest bidder. noun

To sell at an auction. verb

Sell at an auction verb

The public sale of something to the highest bidder noun

A variety of bridge in which tricks made in excess of the contract are scored toward game; now generally superseded by contract bridge noun

A public event where goods or property are sold to the highest bidder.

The first stage of a deal, in which players bid to determine the final contract.

Words that are spelled similarly to auction:
auction, action, suction, ruction, duction, auktion.

Words that are triggered by (strongly associated with) the word auction:
auctions, bidder, auctioneer, ebay, bids, bidding, ipl, buyer, bid, memorabilia, proceeds, sale, sellers, price, item, seller, catalogue, lots, spectrum, collector, bought, items, sold, dealer, donated, sell, securities, charity, catalog, purchased, painting, bankruptcy, buy, raise, estimate, selling, assets, furniture, sites, houses, million, sales, gallery, sum, benefit, purchase, expensive, paid, owner, diamond, estate, house, highest, property, collection.

Words that rhyme with auction:
concoction, loch shin.

Adjectives that are often used to describe auction:
public, dutch, first, price, open, double, bid, english, online, silent, annual, second, reverse, competitive, private, weekly, live, mock, recent, continuous, day, oral, combinatorial, regular, simultaneous, successful, livestock, electronic, pre, optimal, discriminatory, pay, sealed, post, antique, daily, raising, largest, uniform, closed, wholesale, line, forthcoming, value, monthly, svyazinvest, sequential, walrasian, publick, compulsory, unit.

Nouns that are often described by the adjective auction:
rooms, room, block, purchaser, sales, purchasers, houses, house, blocks, agency, market, hunters, sale, markets, rate, goers, eer, bridge, mart.

Consonant match to auction:
action.

Words that sound like auction:
auction, action, xion, oxen, auctions, aachen, coction, oxon, octan, octane, auctioned, ockham, ocran, akan, oxine, actian, ocean, actions, fiction, section, ation, diction, faction, suction, actin, ashen, ition, akron, duction, acton, unction, ican, oaken, oken, -ation, rection, lection, aken, ruction, ishan, acron, taction, vection, ician, oakton, actioned, iken, paction, acean, axin, ecton, acan, achan, eschen, eken, reaktion, aktion, ashan, -ition, icone, exin, achten, eiken, exen, aition, axone, rektion, akene, lektion, eischen, sektion, echon, eichen, -ician, axn, auxin, oggin, ochem, ogren, arshin, archean, archaean, aqua, agin, akin, aka, aiken, aren, achin, archon, arjan, argine, aikin, arcon, aasha, ahlen, aasen, ahren, acklin, aalen.