noun

a public occasion when things are sold to the people who offer the most money for them

noun

connected with an auction or bought at an auction

verb

to sell something at an auction

noun

someone whose job is to sell things at an auction

verb

to offer a particular amount of money for something, for example at an auction (=an event where things are sold to the person who offers the most money)

to offer money for something in order to increase its price, and not because you want to buy it

noun

an offer to give a particular amount of money for something, for example at an auction (=an event where things are sold to the person who offers the most money)

noun

someone who makes bids for something, for example at an auction (=an event where things are sold to the person who offers the most money)

noun

the process of making bids for things, for example at an auction (=an event where things are sold to the person who offers the most money)

noun

a sale in which the price of something gradually goes down until someone agrees to buy it

a website where people buy and sell things by auctioning them (=selling them to the person who offers most money)

noun

a thing or group of things that are to be sold, especially in an auction

verb

to offer to pay more than someone else for something that you want to buy, especially at an auction

verb

to offer more money than something is worth

noun

the lowest price that someone will accept when they sell something at an auction

noun

a room or building where things are sold by auction

noun

a way of selling something in which people put an offer of a particular amount of money inside an envelope, the envelopes are opened when the sale takes place, and the person who offers the most money buys the object

a place in London and New York where old, rare, or valuable objects are sold in auctions

noun

the price that something is given at the beginning of an auction

used by an auctioneer for saying that an object has just been sold

for sale at an auction (=a public sale where people offer money to buy things)

to be sold at an auction (=a public sale in which objects are sold to the person who offers the most money)