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Auctioneer

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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Agent 76% connected

Acting; -- opposed to patient, or sustaining, action.

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Broker 76% connected

One who transacts business for another; an agent.

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Factor 76% connected

One who transacts business for another; an agent; a substitute; especially, a mercantile agent who buys and sells goods and transacts business for ot…

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Sell 76% connected

Self.

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Auction 74% connected

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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Auction 74% connected

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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Auction 92% connected

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

oewn 2023 68% interchangeable

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Advertise verb · 78% connection

To give public notice of; to announce publicly, esp. by a printed notice; as, to advertise goods for sale, a lost article, the sailing…

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Agrarian adjective · 78% connection

Pertaining to fields, or lands, or their tenure; esp., relating to an equal or equitable division of lands; as, the agrarian laws of R…

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Arrange verb · 78% connection

To put in proper order; to dispose (persons, or parts) in the manner intended, or best suited for the purpose; as, troops arranged for…

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Avail noun · 78% connection

Proceeds; as, the avails of a sale by auction.

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Best adjective · 78% connection

Having good qualities in the highest degree; most good, kind, desirable, suitable, etc.; most excellent; as, the best man; the best ro…

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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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Cant verb · 78% connection

to sell by auction, or bid a price at a sale by auction.

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Clothier noun · 78% connection

One who sells cloth or clothes, or who makes and sells clothes.

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Command verb · 78% connection

To have power or influence of the nature of authority over; to obtain as if by ordering; to receive as a due; to challenge; to claim;…

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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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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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Dispose verb · 78% connection

To exercise finally one's power of control over; to pass over into the control of some one else, as by selling; to alienate; to part w…

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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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First-class adjective · 78% connection

Of the best class; of the highest rank; in the first division; of the best quality; first-rate; as, a first-class telescope.

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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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Licitation noun · 78% connection

The act of offering for sale to the highest bidder.

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Market noun · 78% connection

A meeting together of people, at a stated time and place, for the purpose of traffic (as in cattle, provisions, wares, etc.) by privat…

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