2. Verb. (third-person singular of auction) ¹
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Definition of Auctions
1. auction [v] - See also: auction
Lexicographical Neighbors of Auctions
Literary usage of Auctions
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Progress of America, from the Discovery by Columbus to the Year 1846 by John Macgregor (1847)
"auctions.—The system of sales by auction is common in New York and other commercial
towns in the I'nited States ; and in most cases ..."
2. The Merchants' Magazine and Commercial Review by Isaac Smith Homans, William Buck Dana (1849)
"We extract from it Mr Cogswell's description of book auctions in London, the only
portion of the letter that properly falls within the scope of the ..."
3. The Annual Register, Or, A View of the History, Politics, and Literature for by Edmund Burke, Benjamin Franklin Collection (Library of Congress), John Davis Batchelder Collection (Library of Congress) (1819)
"AWS RELATING TO auctions. The Select Committee appointed to take into consideration
the Laws relating to auctions, and to report the same, ..."
4. The Secrets of the Great City: A Work Descriptive of the Virtues and the by James Dabney McCabe (1868)
"MOCK auctions. The day of mock auctions has gone by, but there are still one or
two of these * establishments lingering in the city. ..."
5. Publications by Oxford Historical Society (1907)
"... a thorough Master of his trade, tho' at the same time very impudent and saucy,
yet he was a rascal, & could not at the end of auctions be ..."
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