Auction
A public sale of property to the highest bidder, esp. by a person licensed and authorized for the purpose; a vendue.
The things sold by auction or put up to auction.
To sell by auction.
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Auction Quotations
Every election is a sort of advance auction sale of stolen goods.
H. L. Mencken
When the leaders choose to make themselves bidders at an auction of popularity, their talents, in the construction of the state, will be of no service. They will become flatterers instead of legislators; the instruments, not the guides, of the people.
Edmund Burke
I have this beautiful antique silver wine decanter that I bought at an auction. I always pour wine from that.
Paul Lynde
The designer of my Emmy gown is donating my gown to the charity for an auction.
Maria Menounos
I used to save all my rejection slips because I told myself, one day I'm going to autograph these and auction them. And then I lost the box.
James Lee Burke
God help us if we ever take the theater out of the auction business or anything else. It would be an awfully boring world.
A. Alfred Taubman
Auction Translations
auction in Danish is auktion
auction in Dutch is auctie, afslag, mijn, vendu, veiling
auction in French is liciter, enchere, licitation
auction in German is Versteigerung, versteigern, Auktion {f}
auction in Italian is licitazione
auction in Spanish is almonedar
auction in Swedish is auktion, auktionera
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