AUCTIONEER

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does auctioneer mean? 

• AUCTIONEER (noun)
  The noun AUCTIONEER has 1 sense:

1. an agent who conducts an auction

  Familiarity information: AUCTIONEER used as a noun is very rare.

• AUCTIONEER (verb)
  The verb AUCTIONEER has 1 sense:

1. sell at an auction

  Familiarity information: AUCTIONEER used as a verb is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• AUCTIONEER (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

An agent who conducts an auction

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Hypernyms ("auctioneer" is a kind of...):

agent; broker; factor (a businessman who buys or sells for another in exchange for a commission)

Derivation:

auction (the public sale of something to the highest bidder)

auction; auctioneer (sell at an auction)

• AUCTIONEER (verb)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Sell at an auction

Classified under:

Verbs of buying, selling, owning

Synonyms:

auction; auction off; auctioneer

Hypernyms (to "auctioneer" is one way to...):

sell (exchange or deliver for money or its equivalent)

Domain category:

commerce; commercialism; mercantilism (transactions (sales and purchases) having the objective of supplying commodities (goods and services))

Sentence frame:

Somebody ----s something

Derivation:

auctioneer (an agent who conducts an auction)

 Context examples 

Then he have an auction in that house, and advertise it, and put up big notice; and when the day come he sell off by a great auctioneer all the goods of that other man who own them.

(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)