auction
Concise Oxford English Dictionary © 2008 Oxford University Press:
auction /ˈɔːkʃ(ə)n/
▶noun
- 1 a public sale in which goods or property are sold to the highest bidder.
- 2 Bridge the part of the game in which players bid to decide the contract in which the hand shall be played.
– origin C16: from L. auctio(n-) ‘increase, auction’.
'auction' also found in these Oxford entries:
auction bridge
- barker
- bid
- block
- buy
- call
- cantankerous
- cue bid
- Dutch auction
- force
- guinea
- hammer
- knock
- lot
- open
- overbid
- pass
- put
- reserve price
- roup
- sale
- shut-out bid
- underbid
- upset price
- vendue
