Usually means: Sale where highest bidder wins.
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We found 45 dictionaries that define the word auction:

General (26 matching dictionaries)
  1. auction: Merriam-Webster.com
  2. auction, auction: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. auction: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. auction: Collins English Dictionary
  5. auction: Vocabulary.com
  6. Auction, auction: Wordnik
  7. auction: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. auction: Wiktionary
  9. auction: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. auction: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. auction: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. auction: Dictionary.com
  13. auction (n.): Online Etymology Dictionary
  14. auction: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  15. Auction: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  16. Auction: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  17. auction: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  18. auction: Rhymezone
  19. auction: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  20. auction: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  21. auction: Free Dictionary
  22. auction: Mnemonic Dictionary
  23. auction: LookWAYup Translating Dictionary/Thesaurus
  24. auction: Dictionary/thesaurus

Art (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Beginners' Bridge Glossay (No longer online)
  2. Glossary of Stamp Collecting Terms (No longer online)

Business (10 matching dictionaries)
  1. MoneyGlossary.com (No longer online)
  2. auction: Webster's New World Law Dictionary
  3. INVESTORWORDS (No longer online)
  4. Glossary of Legal Terms (No longer online)
  5. Bouvier's Law Dictionary 1856 Edition (No longer online)
  6. Auction: Investopedia
  7. auction: Legal dictionary
  8. auction: Financial dictionary
  9. Auction (market): Accounting, Business Studies and Economics Dictionary
  10. BusinessDictionary.com (No longer online)

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. auction: Encyclopedia

Miscellaneous (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Brilliant Dream Dictionary (No longer online)
  2. auction: Idioms

Science (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Auction: Eric Weisstein's World of Mathematics
  2. Game Theory Dictionary (No longer online)

Sports (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Auction: Fifthchair Bridge

Tech (1 matching dictionary)
  1. auction: Coin Collecting

(Note: See auctioned as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
noun:  A public event where goods or property are sold to the highest bidder.
noun:  (bridge) The first stage of a deal, in which players bid to determine the final contract.
verb:  To sell at an auction.

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