Definition of auctioneer
:an agent who sells goods at auction
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Examples of auctioneer in a Sentence
The auctioneer started the bidding at $100.
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The sketch featured a white auctioneer holding up popsicle sticks with faces of players to what appeared to be an assemblage of mostly white bidders.
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In said skit the auctioneer held paddles with printed faces of players that included Odell Beckham Jr., Tom Brady and tight end Rob Gronkowski.
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For a practicing barber, auctioneer, or funeral attendant, there’s a clear incentive to limit new competitors.
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Ranchers also will lose in this drought, said Ed Hinton, an auctioneer who drives down from Scobey for the weekly sale at the Glasgow Stockyards.
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THE young woman with the microphone cajoles, hectors and wheedles customers with the breathless enthusiasm of a livestock auctioneer at a county fair.
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The auction originally started outside the Yukon Bar, where entries went for $75 or $100, said Steve Lemme, the longtime auctioneer.
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Black bodies were brought to this country as a commodity, and the only thing that has changed is the volume of the auctioneer’s voice.
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Howard will receive the deed upon the closing of the sale, which is expected to take no more than 30 days, auctioneer Don Guernsey said.
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First Known Use of auctioneer
circa 1708
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