Meaning

2 senses

  1. (transitive)To sell at an auction; to auction.

    versteigern, verauktionieren

    sell at an auction

  2. (intransitive)To act as an auctioneer.

Examples

8 sentences

  1. Tom used to be an auctioneer.

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  2. Tom used to work as an auctioneer.

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  3. Tom is an auctioneer.

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  4. Ziri observed the auctioneer with keen interest.

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  5. The auctioneer spoke too fast to be understood.

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Translations

5 languages
Deutsch
By meaning 1
to sell at an auction:

Forms

auctioneers, auctioneering, auctioneered, auctioneered
Base formauctioneer · to auctioneer
3rd person singularauctioneers
Present participleauctioneering
Past simpleauctioneered
Past participleauctioneered

regular · Lesson

Present simpleLesson

I, you, we, theyauctioneer
he, she, itauctioneers

Past simpleLesson

all personsauctioneered

Present perfectLesson

I, you, we, theyhave auctioneered
he, she, ithas auctioneered

Future simple (will)Lesson

all personswill auctioneer

Synonyms

2 synonyms
Close in meaning

Lessons for this word

3 lessons

See also

neighbours in the dictionary
auburnauctionaudaciousaudacityaudible

Dictionary text adapted from Wiktionary (Wiktionary contributors, CC BY-SA 4.0) and Open English WordNet / Princeton WordNet (CC BY 4.0, WordNet License); shared under CC BY-SA 4.0. Example sentences and recordings are credited where they appear.

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