auction sale

1. 1.

   the public sale of something to the highest bidder

   Synonymsauctionvendue

   Broadersale

Questions about auction sale

What does auction sale mean?

auction sale means "the public sale of something to the highest bidder".

What is another word for auction sale?

Close synonyms include auction, vendue. 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 sale a common word?

auction sale 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.