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auction 音標拼音: ['ɑkʃən] ['ɔkʃən] n. 拍賣
vt. 拍賣 拍賣拍賣 auction n 1: a variety of bridge in which tricks made in excess of the contract are scored toward game; now generally superseded by contract bridge [ synonym: { auction}, { auction bridge}] 2: the public sale of something to the highest bidder [ synonym: { auction}, { auction sale}, { vendue}] v 1: sell at an auction [ synonym: { auction}, { auction off}, { auctioneer}] Auction \ Auc" tion\, n. [ L. auctio an increasing, a public sale, where the price was called out, and the article to be sold was adjudged to the last increaser of the price, or the highest bidder, fr. L. augere, auctum, to increase. See { Augment}.] 1. A public sale of property to the highest bidder, esp. by a person licensed and authorized for the purpose; a vendue. [ 1913 Webster] 2. The things sold by auction or put up to auction. [ 1913 Webster] Ask you why Phryne the whole auction buys ? -- Pope. [ 1913 Webster] Note: In the United States, the more prevalent expression has been " sales at auction," that is, by an increase of bids ( Lat. auctione). This latter form is preferable. [ 1913 Webster] { Dutch auction}, the public offer of property at a price beyond its value, then gradually lowering the price, till some one accepts it as purchaser. -- P. Cyc. [ 1913 Webster]
Auction \ Auc" tion\, v. t. To sell by auction. [ 1913 Webster] AUCTION, commerce, contract. A public sale of property to the highestbidder. Among the Romans this kind of sale, was made by a crier under aspear ( sub hasta) stuck in the ground. 2. Auctions are generally held by express authority, and the person whoconducts them is licensed to do so under various regulations. 3. The manner of conducting an auction is immaterial; whether it be bypublic outcry or by any other manner. The essential part is the selection ofa purchaser from a number of bidders. In a case where a woman continuedsilent during the whole time of the sale, but whenever anyone bid she gavehim a glass of brandy, and when the sale broke up, the person who receivedthe last glass of brandy was taken into a private room, and he was declaredto be the purchaser; this was adjudged to be an auction. 1 Dow. 115. 4. The law requires fairness in auction sales, and when a puffer isemployed to raise the property offered for sale on bona fide bidders, or acombination is entered into between two or more persons not to overbid eachother, the contract may in general be avoided. Vide Puffer, and 6 John. R. 194; 8 John. R. 444; 3 John. Cas. 29; Cowp. 395; 6 T. R. 642; Harr. Dig. Sale, IV.; and the article Conditions Sale. Vide Harr. Dig. Sale, IV.; 13Price, R. 76; M' Clel. R. 25; 6 East, R. 392; 5 B. & A. 257; S. C. 2 Stark. R. 295; 1 Esp. R. 340; 5 Esp. R. 103 4 Taunt. R. 209; 1 H. Bl. R. 81; 2Chit. R. 253; Cowp. R. 395; 1 Bouv. Inst., n. 976.
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