auction
Example Sentences
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"Next year, I think, literally at the beginning of the year, the stake will be auctioned off, an open auction," Siluanov said in an interview with Russian state television.
From Barron's
The first thing you notice as people file into a Best Western hotel conference room for the first morning of auction school is nobody has coffee.
She held an auction in 1987, selling most of her personal belongings—from jewelry to dresses and old posters—to raise money for her work.
Goodyear offers passenger rides through charity auctions, sweepstakes, corporate partnerships and other invitations, but the opportunities are rare, with only 0.0006% of Americans able to claim they have flown in the famed blimp.
From Los Angeles Times
The concept of the “winner’s curse,” the authors report, originated with Atlantic Richfield Co., an oil company that sometimes bid in government auctions for the right to drill in various places.
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
