auction block

1. 1.

   a platform from which an auctioneer sells

   “they put their paintings on the block”

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Questions about auction block

What does auction block mean?

auction block means "a platform from which an auctioneer sells".

What is another word for auction block?

Close synonyms include block. 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 block a common word?

auction block is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.