Auction
Auction noun - The public sale of something to the highest bidder.
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Synonyms for Auction
Offer and auction are semantically related. In some cases you can use "Offer" instead the word "Auction" as a noun or a verb.
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A Family Guy cutaway has Stewie attending a perfectly normal auction, that just happens to offer a machine capable of enslaving humanity.
Source: Auction of Evil - Eventually, Allen convinces the buyer to settle the final price over a game of pool: the buyer wins, the buyer pays his last offer; the auction hunters win, the buyer pays their last offer.
Source: Hustling the Mark -
The season was the first to offer castaways a chance to switch tribes at will, and featured an auction and a merger fake-out through cohabitation.
Source: Series / Survivor
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