单词 | auctioneer |
释义 | ▪ I. auctioneer, n.|ɔːkʃəˈnɪə(r)| [f. auction + -eer1. (Cf. med.L. auctiōnārius, auctiōnātor, one who increases the price, a regrater.)] One who conducts sales by auction.
1708in Kersey. 1762Lond. Mag. XXXI. 296 An Auctioneer and a Fishmonger. 1841Borrow Zincali I. iv. ii. 289 He had perhaps talked more than an auctioneer during a three days' sale. attrib.1865Carlyle Fredk. Gt. III. x. i. 200 To describe this Crown-Prince Mansion..with auctioneer minuteness. ▪ II. auctioˈneer, v. [f. prec. n.] To sell by auction. Hence auctioneering vbl. n.
a1733North Lives (1826) III. 290 Mills, with his auctioneering, atlasses and projects, failed. 1785Cowper Task iii. 756 Estates are landscapes, gazed upon awhile, Then advertised, and auctioneer'd away. 1880Muirhead Gaius 456 Argentarius..combined auctioneering with banking. |

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