auction
Example Sentences
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Investors can buy Treasuries at regular government auctions through the TreasuryDirect website or through banks and brokers, but selling can be trickier in an opaque over-the-counter market.
From Barron's
Warner Bros., a signature Hollywood studio for more than a century, is on the auction block.
From Los Angeles Times
The Western College of Auctioneering has matriculated over 5,000 students, who auction everything from farm equipment to fine art.
"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.
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