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Etymology
From Latin augere (“to increase”).
Pronunciation
Noun
auction (plural auctions)
- A public event where goods or property are sold to the highest bidder.
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public sales event
- Arabic: مزاد (ar) (mazaad) m, مزايدة (ar) (muzaayada) f
- Asturian: puya (ast) f
- Belarusian: аўкцыён (be) (aŭkcyjón) m
- Bengali: নিলাম (bn) (nilāma)
- Bulgarian: търг (bg) (trǎg) m , наддаване (bg) (naddavane) n
- Catalan: subhasta (ca) f
- Chinese:
- Mandarin: 拍賣 (cmn), 拍卖 (cmn) (pāimài), 競賣 (cmn), 竞卖 (cmn) (jìngmài)
- Czech: aukce (cs) f, dražba (cs) f
- Dutch: veiling (nl) f
- Esperanto: aŭkcio (eo)
- Finnish: huutokauppa (fi)
- French: enchères (fr) f pl, vente aux enchères (fr) f
- Galician: poxa (gl) f, almoeda (gl) f, proia (gl) f
- Georgian: აუქციონი (ka) (auk’c’ioni)
- German: Versteigerung (de) f, Auktion (de) f
- Greek: δημοπρασία (el) (dimoprasía) f
- Hebrew: מכירה פומבית (he) (mekhira pumbyt) f
- Hindi: नीलामी (hi) (nīlāmī)
- Hungarian: árverés (hu), aukció (hu)
- Indonesian: lelang (id)
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Verb
auction (third-person singular simple present auctions, present participle auctioning, simple past and past participle auctioned)
- To sell at an auction.
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