auction
Example Sentences
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The ministry of finance will auction about 2.8 trillion yen of two-year government notes Dec. 25.
"They had never come to auction market before and nobody had a value for them," he said.
From BBC
A small gathering of people milled around as auction items were read through by a woman speaking at a volume not much louder than a semiprivate conversation.
These issues will generally take place as dual- or triple-tranche auctions, the finance agency said.
From MarketWatch
The auction failed to secure enough capacity to meet its reliability requirement, a standard meant to protect against outages during emergencies.
From Barron's
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