auction

1. 1.

   sell at an auction

   Synonymsauction offauctioneer

   Broadersell

   commerce

Other forms of auction

plural

auctions·

past tense

auctioned·

present participle

auctioning·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about auction

What does auction mean?

auction means "a variety of bridge in which tricks made in excess of the contract are scored toward game; now generally superseded by contract bridge". That is the primary sense; the word has 3 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in auction?

auction has 2 syllables: auc-tion. The stress falls on "auc". In IPA it is /ˈɑkʃən/.

What is another word for auction?

Close synonyms include auction bridge, auction sale, vendue, auction off, auctioneer. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is auction a common word?

auction is banded "Common" — everyday vocabulary in speech and writing. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.