Definitions for auctions

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auctions auc·tion

Spelling: [awk-shuh n]

IPA: /ˈɔk ʃən/

Auctions is a 8 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 9 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 12 points.

You can make 417 anagrams from letters in auctions (acinostu).

Definitions for auctions

noun

1. Also called public sale. a publicly held sale at which property or goods are sold to the highest bidder.
2. Cards. auction bridge. (in bridge or certain other games) the competitive bidding to fix a contract that a player or players undertake to fulfill.

verb (used with object)

1. to sell by auction (often followed by off):

Origin of auctions

1585-95; Latin auctiōn- (stem of auctiō) an increase, especially in the bidding at a sale, equivalent to auct(us) increased, past participle of augēre (aug- increase + -tus past participle su

Examples for auctions

A gentleman had died at that date whose furniture was sold by auction.

Along the Prado they used to sell slaves on the auction block, too.

Next day we'll have an auction and sell 'em to the highest cash bidder.

There had been an auction of the effects of a settler, who was moving off to the South Island.

In that auction Caste comes first, then wealth and position.

Even though this is the second auction, it will technically be the first time this has happened.

Both ideas are admirable, and quite possibly necessary to save American democracy from the auction block.

Messenio announces an auction and invites the spectators to attend.

“The intention is to create a 21st century auction house,” Gilkes says.

This return scam involved purchasing broken electronics off the auction site and then buying new items off store shelves.