Synonyms for auction
ˈɔk ʃənauc·tion

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1. auctionnoun

   Synonyms:
   roup sale

2. auctionverb

   To sell at an auction.

   Synonyms:
   roup sale

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1. auction, auction bridgenoun

   a variety of bridge in which tricks made in excess of the contract are scored toward game; now generally superseded by contract bridge

   Synonyms:
   vendue, auction bridge, auction sale

2. auction, auction sale, vendueverb

   the public sale of something to the highest bidder

   Synonyms:
   vendue, auction bridge, auction sale

3. auction, auction off, auctioneerverb

   sell at an auction

   Synonyms:
   auction off, auctioneer

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1. auctionnoun

   Synonyms:
   vendue, cant, public sale, auction sale

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1. auctionnoun

   Synonyms:
   vendue

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1. List of paraphrases for "auction":

   auctioning, reverse, bidding, eras, era, tendering, bid, sale, award

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1. Phil Grant:

   The current auction rules will likely need to change and potentially include a form of emissions standard in order to qualify for a contract.

2. Van Eaton:

   It wasn't the films the made the studio so much, it was the merchandise, the marketing of the characters that really made Disney what it is today and that's what we're trying to show in this auction.

3. Phil Grant:

   This auction does not solve the long term problem in attracting new entrant large scale gas plant to the market.

4. Richard Blumenthal:

   Big Tech claims that Big Tech simply presides over an open and free market, but in a truly free market the same party can't represent the seller, the buyer, make the rules, and conduct the auction, and that is unacceptable in a free enterprise system -- it hurts consumers and it hurts competition.

5. Anania Ncube:

   One day I attended a livestock auction where a cross-breed steer was sold for more money than a big indigenous bull which I expected to fetch more. That won me over.