auctioneering

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During the heady days of the dot-com bubble, McCormick was CEO of the internet auctioneering house FreeMarkets - amassing wealth as he steered the Pittsburgh-based company to a nearly $500 million acquisition deal in 2004.

From Washington Times • Aug. 14, 2023

During the heady days of the dot-com bubble, McCormick was CEO of the internet auctioneering house FreeMarkets — amassing wealth as he steered the Pittsburgh-based company to a nearly $500 million acquisition deal in 2004.

From Seattle Times • Aug. 13, 2023

For one thing, she later said, she felt a spiritual void, and auctioneering “no longer felt correct.”

From New York Times • Jun. 21, 2016

Though he eschews the "homina-homina-homina" patter known in auctioneering as "the chant," the puckish Girardo entertains bids in all four languages from the auction floor, over the telephone and via the Internet.

From Los Angeles Times • Aug. 15, 2015

This amused the questioners and I had a large crowd in attendance, many of whom no doubt came to hear me in my first effort at auctioneering.

From Twenty Years of Hus'ling by Denslow, W. W. (William Wallace)