Auctioneer

Word AUCTIONEER
Character 10
Hyphenation auc tion eer
Pronunciations N/A

Definitions and meanings of "Auctioneer"

What do we mean by auctioneer?

One that conducts an auction. noun

To sell at an auction. transitive verb

One whose business is to offer goods or property for sale by auction; the crier who calls for bids and strikes the bargain at an auction; a person licensed to dispose of goods or property by public sale to the highest bidder. noun

To sell by auction.

To sell by auction; to auction. transitive verb

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. noun

A person who conducts an auction on behalf of a vendor, taking bids to find the best price for the vendor. noun

To sell at an auction; to auction. verb

An agent who conducts an auction noun

Sell at an auction verb

A person who conducts an auction on behalf of a vendor, taking bids to find the best price for the vendor.

Synonyms and Antonyms for Auctioneer

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The word "auctioneer" in example sentences

Ring announcer Bruce Buffer, who has a disturbing baby face with the high pompadour of an auctioneer from the cattle lots in Oklahoma, steps into the octagon to introduce the card. ❋ Unknown (2008)

The auctioneer is amazing, like something out of a Tex Avery cartoon, motormouthing a mile a minute. ❋ Unknown (2006)

Mark Jaffe, the Fort York auctioneer, is a gifted motormouth who runs his tongue 95mph with wit and wild abandon. ❋ Unknown (2001)

We put 'em into Joe Stevenson's hands to sell -- that was what every one called the auctioneer -- and walked down the long street. ❋ Rolf Boldrewood (1870)

The attitude of collectors, according to Tom Eden of London coin auctioneer Morton & Eden, is "with little return on investments, what's wrong with putting money into your hobby?" ❋ Unknown (2009)

She is the daughter of a livestock auctioneer, which is an appropriate background. ❋ Unknown (2007)

I'm beginning to wonder if our auctioneer is the only person left on the planet who calls Master-Card by the old "Master-Charge." ❋ Grouse (2003)

But you talked earlier about how it was kind of like a circus and the auctioneer was the ... ❋ Unknown (2002)

"And here, " called the auctioneer, -we have one of the cathces of Kliomenes, taken near Lara. ❋ Norman, John, 1931- (1982)

The auctioneer was a tested man, Mike Garmisch of Fort Collins. ❋ Michener, James (1974)

Of all the hammers in this busy and hammering world, from the huge forge-hammer with which the brawny blacksmith deals telling blows upon the glowing iron and beats it into shape, to the tiny hammer that the watchmaker so deftly handles, the ivory-headed, ebony-handled instrument of the auctioneer is the most potent. ❋ Various (N/A)

The auctioneer was a little dried-up mummy of a man, the ugliness of whose countenance was, as it were, emphasized by a disagreeable leer which would ever and anon deepen into a broad grin; this man, with his dreary jokes and vapid small-talk, was equally repulsive to me. ❋ Various (N/A)

The goods are passed out of a closed room from a high window where the crowd can see them, and then each one wanting them tries to be first in securing the hand of the auctioneer, which is ensconced in his long sleeve, where, by squeezing his fingers, they tell him how much they will give for the particular piece. ❋ Unknown (1909)

The auctioneer was a disagreeable-looking man, with a most unpleasant voice, which gave me a sense of discomfort, the little old house and its surroundings seemed so grave and silent and lonely. ❋ Frances Lee (1879)

The auctioneer was a rustic humorist, who knew the practical value of a joke in his business. ❋ Edward Payson Roe (1863)

The auctioneer was a true friend to father, and used great deception in making the purchaser believe that the two children would die unless they could have their mother's care, so that father bought them at his own price, as no person bid against him. ❋ Greensbury Washington (1859)

Glancing his eyes one side, Burns caught another sight of his master; it proved to be the last, as the words addressed to the auctioneer were the last words that ❋ Unknown (1856)

School neither warrants nor rep - the auctioneer is a legal contract to purchase the item. resents, and in no event shall be responsible for the correctness of descriptions, genuineness, authorship, provenance or condition of the items. ❋ DavidWolski (2010)

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