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from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

  • noun One that conducts an auction.
  • transitive verb To sell at an auction.

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun One whose business is to offer goods or property for sale by auction; the crier who calls for bids and strikes the bargain at an auction; a person licensed to dispose of goods or property by public sale to the highest bidder.
  • To sell by auction.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • transitive verb To sell by auction; to auction.
  • noun A person who sells by auction; a person whose business it is to dispose of goods or lands by public sale to the highest or best bidder.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • noun A person who conducts an auction on behalf of a vendor, taking bids to find the best price for the vendor.
  • verb transitive To sell at an auction; to auction.

from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

  • noun an agent who conducts an auction
  • verb sell at an auction

Etymologies

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From auction +‎ -eer

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