0 a usually public sale of goods or property, where people make higher and higher bids (= offers of money) for each thing, until the thing is sold to the person who will pay most:
2 a usually public sale of goods or property, where people make higher and higher bids (= offers of money) for each item, until there are no higher bids and it is sold for the most money offered:
3 a public sale in which goods or property are sold to the person who offers the most money:
sell sth at auction The painting was sold at auction for €12 million.
hold an auction We held a charity auction in aid of the local hospital.
be up/come up/go up/be put up for auction One of the prints recently came up for auction in the United States.
an internet/online/public auction You can bid for it in an online auction.
Two senior officials have been entrusted with organizing the auction.
Amongst other pop ephemera, the auction will be selling off rock stars' stage clothes.
A rare Stradivarius violin failed to reach its reserve price when put up for auction on Tuesday.
In an auction, goods or property are sold to the highest bidder.
By the time it was her turn to be auctioned, the majority of the audience had already left.
An even more powerful strike at the power of stage contractors was the department's newfound ability to monitor local auctions for stage service.
Their property, though sequestered, was not classified as biens nationaux and auctioned off.
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