auctioneer
Speech parts
1. auctioneer - Noun
2. auctioneer - Verb
Meaning
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.
To sell by auction; to auction.
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It is only an auctioneer who can equally and impartially admire all schools of art.
When the slave auctioneer asked in what he was proficient, he replied, "In ruling people."
Diogenes, on being sold as a slave at Corinth, was asked by the auctioneer what he could do. "Rule men," he replied. "Do you suppose," asked the other, "that people want to buy masters?”.
An auctioneer is such a uniquely American thing. I keep thinking in my head, perhaps it's not as American as I think, but it feels so Southern. It feels so American. Like, hundreds of years of American tradition is involved in it.
Absolute catholicity of taste is not without its dangers. It is only an auctioneer who should admire all schools of art.
“Adjugé!” said a gray-haired auctioneer, over and over, as he gaveled away nearly every one of the 200 lots for sale at Drouot, an auction house, in Paris in mid-November.