AUCTIONS Synonyms

• an authoritative direction or instruction to do something

• a request to be present

• (bridge) the number of tricks a bridge player is willing to contract to make

• the power to use something or someone

• a method of tending to or managing the affairs of some group of people (especially the group's business affairs)

• the act or means of getting rid of something

• a kitchen appliance for disposing of garbage

• the world of commercial activity where goods and services are bought and sold

• an area in a town where a public mercantile establishment is set up

• a particular instance of selling

• the general activity of selling

• an occasion (usually brief) for buying at specially reduced prices

• the state of being purchasable; offered or exhibited for selling

• an agreement (or contract) in which property is transferred from the seller (vendor) to the buyer (vendee) for a fixed price in money (paid or agreed to be paid by the buyer)

• income (at invoice values) received for goods and services over some given period of time

• given to sympathy or gentleness or sentimentality

• easy to cut or chew

• physically untoughened

• something that can be used as an official medium of payment

• someone who waits on or tends to or attends to the needs of another

• a formal proposal to buy at a specified price

• car attached to a locomotive to carry fuel and water

• a boat for communication between ship and shore

• ship that usually provides supplies to other ships

• hurting

• young and immature

• having or displaying warmth or affection

• (used of boats) inclined to heel over easily under sail

• (of plants) not hardy; easily killed by adverse growing condition

• offer or present for acceptance

• propose a payment

• make a tender of; in legal settlements

• make tender or more tender as by marinating, pounding, or applying a tenderizer

• buying or selling securities or commodities

• a variety of bridge in which tricks made in excess of the contract are scored toward game; now generally superseded by contract bridge

• the public sale of something to the highest bidder

• sell at an auction

• an authoritative direction or instruction to do something

• an attempt to get something

• a formal proposal to buy at a specified price

• (bridge) the number of tricks a bridge player is willing to contract to make

• propose a payment

• invoke upon

• ask for or request earnestly

• make a demand, as for a card or a suit or a show of hands

• make a serious effort to attain something

• ask someone in a friendly way to do something

• the verbal act of offering

• something offered (as a proposal or bid)

• a usually brief attempt

• give something useful or necessary to

• present for acceptance or rejection

• agree freely

• put forward for consideration

• offer verbally

• make available for sale

• propose a payment

• produce or introduce on the stage

• present as an act of worship

• mount or put up

• make available; provide

• ask (someone) to marry you

• threaten to do something

• an agent who conducts an auction

• sell at an auction

• a variety of bridge in which tricks made in excess of the contract are scored toward game; now generally superseded by contract bridge

• sell at an auction

• the public sale of something to the highest bidder