Usually means: Bidding privately on items displayed.
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  1. silent auction: Merriam-Webster
  2. silent auction: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  3. silent auction: Wiktionary
  4. silent auction: Infoplease Dictionary
  5. silent auction: Dictionary.com
  6. Silent auction: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  7. silent auction: TheFreeDictionary.com

Definitions from Wiktionary (silent auction)

noun:  An auction where people write secret bids on a piece of paper, and whoever has the highest bid wins the item.
noun:  An auction held over a long period of time where people write public bids on a piece of paper, and whoever has the highest bid wins the item.

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