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/ˌɑkʃənˈɪr/ Listen

Auctioneer

noun

An agent who conducts an auction.

verb

Sell at an auction. Synonyms: auction, auction off.

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"Auctioneer" Quotes from Famous Books

... been set up in the middle of the big room where the auction was being held. Furniture and stuff was jammed all around, even at the back of the platform where the auctioneer stood. He was a thick-set, big-mouthed man wearing a blue and red plaid ...

— Jerry's Charge Account • Hazel Hutchins Wilson

... a silence which told of the interest of the crowd, the auctioneer read out a description of the bounds and acreage of ...

— Janice Meredith • Paul Leicester Ford

... held and who would conduct it. My partners had a lawyer in the room to represent them, though I had not considered having a legal representative; I thought I could take care of so simple a transaction. The lawyer acted as the auctioneer, and it was suggested that we should go on with the sale then and there. All agreed, and so ...

— Random Reminiscences of Men and Events • John D. Rockefeller

... he may do that afterwards, if he pleases. Stay, Careless, we want you: egad, you shall be auctioneer—so ...

— The School For Scandal • Richard Brinsley Sheridan

... a fairly long book for this author. It starts with two young men working as clerks in the offices of a tyrannical auctioneer. Fed up with his unpleasant behaviour they give up their jobs and determine to set out for British Columbia. To get there they must take passage in a ship going round the Horn, and up to San Francisco. Then they have to make their way further ...

— To The West • George Manville Fenn

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