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| Main Entry: |
auction
 [awk-shuhn] 
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| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | competitive sale; sale by bid |
| Synonyms: | bargain, jam*, sell-off |
* = informal/non-formal usage
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| Main Entry: | sale |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | exchange of object for money |
| Synonyms: | auction, barter, business, buying, clearance, closeout, commerce, consuming, deal, demand, disposal, dumping, enterprise, marketing, negotiation, purchase, purchasing, reduction, selling, trade, transaction, unloading, vending, vendition |
| Main Entry: | sell |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | exchange an object for money |
| Synonyms: | advertise, auction, bargain, barter, be in business, boost, clinch the deal, close, close the deal, contract, deal in, dispose, drum, dump, exchange, handle, hawk, hustle, market, merchandise, move, peddle, persuade, pitch, plug, puff, push, put across, put up for sale, retail, retain, snow, soft sell, soft soap, spiel*, stock, sweet talk, trade, traffic, unload, vend, wholesale |
| Notes: | a cell is a small compartment or the basic structural and functional unit of all organisms, while sell means to exchange or deliver for money or its equivalent |
| Antonyms: | buy |
* = informal/non-formal usage
Example Sentences
- It's a sort of online version of a local auction house, but one with global reach and where the sale room never closes.
- Unexpected things come to the auction block sometimes.
- But the wines that win the best prices at auction are those whose provenance is certain.
| Main Entry: | selling |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | the act of selling |
| Synonyms: | auction, auctioning, bartering, merchandising, sale, trading, transacting, transfer, transferring, vending |
| Antonyms: | acquiring, buying, purchasing |
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| Main Entry: | sale |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
Related
Adjectives: |
emporeutic, emptional, for sale, in the market, marketable, nundinal, on one's hands, pignorate, purchased, salable, unbought, under the hammer, unpurchased, unsalable, vendible
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| Concept: | Sale. |
| Category: | 3. Interchange of Property |
| Synonyms: |
-nouns
sale, vent, disposal; auction, roup, Dutch auction; outcry, vendue; custom (traffic)., vendibility, vendibleness., seller; vender, vendor; merchant; auctioneer.
-verbs
sell, vend, dispose of, effect a sale; sell over the counter, sell by auction; dispense, retail; deal in; sell off, sell out; turn into money, realize; bring to the hammer, bring under the hammer, put up to auction; offer for sale, put up for sale; hawk, bring to market; offer; undersell., let; mortgage (security).
-adjectives
under the hammer, on the market, for sale., salable, marketable, vendible; unsalable, unpurchased, unbought; on one's hands.
-phrases
chose qui plait est a demi vendue.
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| Antonyms: | purchase |
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