auctions
Sales with gavels
Auctions are sales where goods go to the highest bidder.
Participants compete by offering progressively higher prices until no one will bid more.
The verb auction means to sell this way: They auctioned off the estate's contents.
Auctions range from livestock sales to fine art at Sotheby's to eBay listings.
To auction off suggests disposing of items, often to settle debts or clear inventory.
Small ceremonial hammer
- hammerTool for striking nails
- lotLarge amount or portion
- catalogueSystematic list of items
- previewAdvance showing sample
estimate · consignment · provenance · gallery · saleroom · podium · rostrum · appraisal
gavel
Small ceremonial hammer
preview · estimate · consignment · provenance · gallery · saleroom · podium · rostrum · appraisal · viewing
bid
Offer to purchase
paddle · proxy · snipe · escalation · floor · ceiling · absentee · opening · competing · counterbid
antiques
Valuable old items
- collectiblesItems people amass
- artworkVisual creative production
- estateProperty and grounds
jewelry · furniture · memorabilia · artifacts · valuables · livestock · machinery · vehicles · property · wine
- classifiedswant ad, personal ad, job ad, pet ads, wanted ads
- fundraisingdonation, donations, donor, donors, fundraiser
- resaleresale, eBay, secondhand goods, Poshmark, thrifting
- stamp collectingpostage stamps, stamp album, stamp albums, mint stamps, used stamps
- salvagesalvage, salvage operations, salvage operation, salvor, marine salvage
- philatelystamps, postage stamps, stamp collecting, mint stamps, album
auctionscatalog sales
Purchases via printed listings
price tags · retail · retail sales · sticker price · posted prices
- online auctionInternet-based competitive sale
- auction houseFirm conducting competitive sales
- auction salesCompetitive public selling
- auction offSell to highest bidder
- silent auctionFundraiser with submitted bids
- live auctionIn-person competitive sale
auction, auctioneer, auctioning, auctioned, auctioneers, auction house, auction off