Etymology
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From auction + -eer.
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auctioneer (plural auctioneers)
- A individual who conducts an auction on behalf of a vendor, accepting bids to find the best price for the vendor.
2002, Zadie Smith, The Autograph Man, Penguin Books (2003), page 102:The auctioneer, with his fruity, theatrical voice and his gavel, hits a block of wood in precisely the same spot, no matter the day.
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one who conducts an auction
- Afrikaans: afslaer (af)
- Catalan: subhastador m
- Chinese:
- Mandarin: 拍賣商／拍卖商 (zh) (pāimàishāng)
- Danish: auktionarius c
- Dutch: veilingmeester (nl) m, vendumeester m, veilinghouder m, afslager (nl) m
- Finnish: huutokaupanpitäjä
- French: commissaire-priseur (fr) m
- Galician: poxador (gl)
- German: Auktionator (de) m, Versteigerer m
- Greek: εκπλειστηριαστής (el) m (ekpleistiriastís), δημοπράτης (el) m (dimoprátis)
- Italian: battitore (it) m, banditore (it) m
- Kazakh: аукционшы (auksionşy)
- Latin: praecō m
- Maori: kaimākete
- Norman: encanteux m
- Norwegian:
- Bokmål: auksjonarius m
- Nynorsk: auksjonarius m
- Polish: aukcjoner (pl) m
- Portuguese: leiloeiro (pt) m
- Romanian: licitator m, adjudecător (ro) m
- Russian: аукциони́ст (ru) m (aukcioníst), аукциони́стка f (aukcionístka)
- Spanish: pregonero (es) m or f, subastador m, rematador m
- Swahili: dalali (sw)
- Swedish: auktionsutropare (sv) c, auktionsförrättare (sv) c, auktionist c
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auctioneer (third-person singular simple present auctioneers, present participle auctioneering, simple past and past participle auctioneered)
- (transitive) To sell at an auction; to auction.
- (intransitive) To act as an auctioneer.
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