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Auction

A public sale of property to the highest bidder, esp. by a person licensed and authorized for the purpose; a vendue.

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Bridge 76% connected

A structure, usually of wood, stone, brick, or iron, erected over a river or other water course, or over a chasm, railroad, etc., to make a passagewa…

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Sale 76% connected

See 1st Sallow.

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Sell 76% connected

Self.

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Auctioneer 74% connected

A person who sells by auction; a person whose business it is to dispose of goods or lands by public sale to the highest or best bidder.

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Auctioneer 74% connected

A person who sells by auction; a person whose business it is to dispose of goods or lands by public sale to the highest or best bidder.

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Auctioneer 92% connected

A person who sells by auction; a person whose business it is to dispose of goods or lands by public sale to the highest or best bidder.

oewn 2023 68% interchangeable

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Vendue 92% connected

A public sale of anything, by outcry, to the highest bidder; an auction.

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Assessment noun · 78% connection

A valuation of property or profits of business, for the purpose of taxation; such valuation and an adjudging of the proper sum to be l…

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Authorize verb · 78% connection

To establish by authority, as by usage or public opinion; to sanction; as, idioms authorized by usage.

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Bargain noun · 78% connection

An agreement between parties concerning the sale of property; or a contract by which one party binds himself to transfer the right to…

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Board noun · 78% connection

A table at which a council or court is held. Hence: A council, convened for business, or any authorized assembly or meeting, public or…

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Capper noun · 78% connection

A by-bidder; a decoy for gamblers [Slang, U. S.].

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Contract noun · 78% connection

(contract bridge) the highest bid becomes the contract setting the number of tricks that the bidder must make

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Credit foncier unknown · 78% connection

A company licensed for the purpose of carrying out improvements, by means of loans and advances upon real securities.

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Declaration noun · 78% connection

(contract bridge) the highest bid becomes the contract setting the number of tricks that the bidder must make

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Doctor noun · 78% connection

An academical title, originally meaning a men so well versed in his department as to be qualified to teach it. Hence: One who has take…

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Embezzlement noun · 78% connection

The fraudulent appropriation of property by a person to whom it has been intrusted; as, the embezzlement by a clerk of his employer's;…

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Estate noun · 78% connection

A property which a person possesses; a fortune; possessions, esp. property in land; also, property of all kinds which a person leaves…

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Expose verb · 78% connection

To set forth; to set out to public view; to exhibit; to show; to display; as, to expose goods for sale; to expose pictures to public i…

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Handsel noun · 78% connection

A sale, gift, or delivery into the hand of another; especially, a sale, gift, delivery, or using which is the first of a series, and r…

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Hawk verb · 78% connection

To offer for sale by outcry in the street; to carry (merchandise) about from place to place for sale; to peddle; as, to hawk goods or…

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Information verb · 78% connection

A proceeding in the nature of a prosecution for some offens against the government, instituted and prosecuted, really or nominally, by…

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Judge noun · 78% connection

a public official authorized to decide questions brought before a court of justice

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Jurist noun · 78% connection

a public official authorized to decide questions brought before a court of justice

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Justice noun · 78% connection

a public official authorized to decide questions brought before a court of justice

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