auc·tion·eer

(ôk′shə-nîr′)

One that conducts an auction.

tr.v. auc·tion·eered, auc·tion·eer·ing, auc·tion·eers

To sell at an auction.

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auctioneer

(ˌɔːkʃəˈnɪə)

1. (Professions) a person who conducts an auction by announcing the lots and controlling the bidding

2. (Commerce) a person who conducts an auction by announcing the lots and controlling the bidding

(Commerce) (tr) to sell by auction

Collins English Dictionary – Complete and Unabridged, 12th Edition 2014 © HarperCollins Publishers 1991, 1994, 1998, 2000, 2003, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2011, 2014

auc•tion•eer

(ˌɔk ʃəˈnɪər)

n.

1. a person who conducts sales by auction.

v.t.

2. to sell by auction.

[1700–10]

auctioneer

Past participle: auctioneered
Gerund: auctioneering

Imperative
auctioneer
auctioneer

Present
I auctioneer
you auctioneer
he/she/it auctioneers
we auctioneer
you auctioneer
they auctioneer

Preterite
I auctioneered
you auctioneered
he/she/it auctioneered
we auctioneered
you auctioneered
they auctioneered

Present Continuous
I am auctioneering
you are auctioneering
he/she/it is auctioneering
we are auctioneering
you are auctioneering
they are auctioneering

Present Perfect
I have auctioneered
you have auctioneered
he/she/it has auctioneered
we have auctioneered
you have auctioneered
they have auctioneered

Past Continuous
I was auctioneering
you were auctioneering
he/she/it was auctioneering
we were auctioneering
you were auctioneering
they were auctioneering

Past Perfect
I had auctioneered
you had auctioneered
he/she/it had auctioneered
we had auctioneered
you had auctioneered
they had auctioneered

Future
I will auctioneer
you will auctioneer
he/she/it will auctioneer
we will auctioneer
you will auctioneer
they will auctioneer

Future Perfect
I will have auctioneered
you will have auctioneered
he/she/it will have auctioneered
we will have auctioneered
you will have auctioneered
they will have auctioneered

Future Continuous
I will be auctioneering
you will be auctioneering
he/she/it will be auctioneering
we will be auctioneering
you will be auctioneering
they will be auctioneering

Present Perfect Continuous
I have been auctioneering
you have been auctioneering
he/she/it has been auctioneering
we have been auctioneering
you have been auctioneering
they have been auctioneering

Future Perfect Continuous
I will have been auctioneering
you will have been auctioneering
he/she/it will have been auctioneering
we will have been auctioneering
you will have been auctioneering
they will have been auctioneering

Past Perfect Continuous
I had been auctioneering
you had been auctioneering
he/she/it had been auctioneering
we had been auctioneering
you had been auctioneering
they had been auctioneering

Conditional
I would auctioneer
you would auctioneer
he/she/it would auctioneer
we would auctioneer
you would auctioneer
they would auctioneer

Past Conditional
I would have auctioneered
you would have auctioneered
he/she/it would have auctioneered
we would have auctioneered
you would have auctioneered
they would have auctioneered

Collins English Verb Tables © HarperCollins Publishers 2011

ThesaurusAntonymsRelated WordsSynonymsLegend:

Noun	1.	auctioneer - an agent who conducts an auction broker, factor, agent - a businessman who buys or sells for another in exchange for a commission
Verb	1.	auctioneer - sell at an auction auction, auction off commerce, commercialism, mercantilism - transactions (sales and purchases) having the objective of supplying commodities (goods and services) sell - exchange or deliver for money or its equivalent; "He sold his house in January"; "She sells her body to survive and support her drug habit"

Translations

دَلاّل، مُناد في المَزَاد العَلَنِي

dražebník

auktionarius

Auktionator

pregonero rematar subastar

commissaire-priseur

árverésvezetõ

uppboîshaldari

banditore

auksjonarius

açık artırmacımezatçı

拍卖商

auctioneer

[ˌɔːkʃəˈnɪəʳ] N → subastador(a) m/f, rematador(a) m/f

Collins Spanish Dictionary - Complete and Unabridged 8th Edition 2005 © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1971, 1988 © HarperCollins Publishers 1992, 1993, 1996, 1997, 2000, 2003, 2005

auctioneer

[ˌɔːkʃəˈnɪə^r] n → commissaire-priseur/euse m/fauction house n → société f de vente(s) aux enchèresauction room n → salle f des ventesauction sale n → vente f aux enchères, enchères fplauction site n (on the Internet) → site m de vente aux enchères, site m d'enchères en ligne

Collins English/French Electronic Resource. © HarperCollins Publishers 2005

auctioneer

n → Auktionator(in) m(f)

Collins German Dictionary – Complete and Unabridged 7th Edition 2005. © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1980 © HarperCollins Publishers 1991, 1997, 1999, 2004, 2005, 2007

auctioneer

[ˌɔːkʃəˈnɪəʳ] n → banditore/trice

Collins Italian Dictionary 1st Edition © HarperCollins Publishers 1995

auction

(ˈoːkʃən) noun

a public sale in which each thing is sold to the person who offers the highest price. They held an auction; He sold the house by auction.

verb

to sell something in this way. He auctioned all his furniture before emigrating.

ˌauctioˈneer noun

a person who is in charge of selling things at an auction.

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Sapsea,' observes Jasper, watching the auctioneer with a smile as the latter stretches out his legs before the fire, 'that you know the world.'

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"How much for this precious library, just as it stands, all complete?" called the auctioneer.

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The slave auctioneer's bell and the church-going bell chime in with each other, and the bitter cries of the heart-broken slave are drowned in the religious shouts of his pious master.

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The conversation was here interrupted by a busy hum in the audience; and the auctioneer, a short, bustling, important fellow, elbowed his way into the crowd.

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Stepping in for a moment at the open gate and looking around me with the uncomfortable air of a stranger who had no business there, I saw the auctioneer's clerk walking on the casks and telling them off for the information of a catalogue compiler, pen in hand, who made a temporary desk of the wheeled chair I had so often pushed along to the tune of Old Clem.

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O Dives, who would ever have thought, as we sat round the broad table sparkling with plate and spotless linen, to have seen such a dish at the head of it as that roaring auctioneer?

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There were, within sight, an auctioneer's and fire-agency office, a corn-factor's, a linen-draper's, a saddler's, a distiller's, a grocer's, and a shoe-shop--the last- mentioned warehouse being also appropriated to the diffusion of hats, bonnets, wearing apparel, cotton umbrellas, and useful knowledge.

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I wouldn't make a downright lawyer o' the lad,--I should be sorry for him to be a raskill,--but a sort o' engineer, or a surveyor, or an auctioneer and vallyer, like Riley, or one o' them smartish businesses as are all profits and no outlay, only for a big watch-chain and a high stool.

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From that day the hand that assisted the young man to start in life was never felt again in his career, except as to a single circumstance; it led him, poor and friendless, to the house of a Monsieur Leprince, formerly an auctioneer, a widower said to be extremely rich, and father of an only daughter.

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While he pointed out the great alliances which his ancestors had formed, Philip amused himself by wondering whether Athelny was not the son of some tradesman in Winchester, auctioneer or coal-merchant, and whether a similarity of surname was not his only connection with the ancient family whose tree he was displaying.

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Katharine never made any attempt to spare people's feelings, he reflected; and, being himself very sensitive to all shades of comfort and discomfort, he cut short the auctioneer's catalog, which Katharine was reeling off more and more absent-mindedly, and took Mrs.

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A writer who intermixes great quantity of Greek and Latin with his works, deals by the ladies and fine gentlemen in the same paultry manner with which they are treated by the auctioneers, who often endeavour so to confound and mix up their lots, that, in order to purchase the commodity you want, you are obliged at the same time to purchase that which will do you no service.

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