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AUCTIONEER

Pronunciation (US):

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 I. (noun) 

Sense 1

Meaning:

An agent who conducts an auction

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Hypernyms ("auctioneer" is a kind of...):

agent; broker; factor (a businessman who buys or sells for another in exchange for a commission)

Derivation:

auction (the public sale of something to the highest bidder)

auction; auctioneer (sell at an auction)

 II. (verb) 

Sense 1

Meaning:

Sell at an auction

Synonyms:

auction; auction off; auctioneer

Classified under:

Verbs of buying, selling, owning

Hypernyms (to "auctioneer" is one way to...):

sell (exchange or deliver for money or its equivalent)

Domain category:

commerce; commercialism; mercantilism (transactions (sales and purchases) having the objective of supplying commodities (goods and services))

Sentence frame:

Somebody ----s something

Derivation:

auctioneer (an agent who conducts an auction)

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