Synonym: auction bridge, auction off, auction sale, auctioneer, vendue. Similar words: reduction, production, destruction, instruction, introduction, construction, instructional, action. Meaning: ['ɔːkʃn] 
n. 1. a variety of bridge in which tricks made in excess of the contract are scored toward game; now generally superseded by contract bridge 2. the public sale of something to the highest bidder. v. sell at an auction.
n. 1. a variety of bridge in which tricks made in excess of the contract are scored toward game; now generally superseded by contract bridge 2. the public sale of something to the highest bidder. v. sell at an auction. 
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211. On the day of the sale last May, Woolley's auction room was full of bidders who had made the journey from London, and even from as far afield as Hong Kong and mainland China.
212. Men, women and children are no longershakledshackled, put on the auction block and sold like prize cattle to the highest bidder.
213. Walter Raymond Gustafson, a local bibliophile who had purchased the materials at an auction at the Barrens in 1960, had died in 2005.
214. His car is certain to fetch a good price at the auction.
215. His report helped to convince the U.S. Congress to withdraw this region from public auction.
216. Right: A Christie's auction house guard stands next to the Rothschild Faberge egg at Christie's in London, Britain, Oct. 4, 2007.
217. He will expose his old furniture for sale at public auction.
218. The recent attempt to sell a pair of brass Chinese animal heads took an inventive turn after they were put up for auction as part of the sale of French designer Yves Saint Laurent's art collection.
More similar words: reduction, production, destruction, instruction, introduction, construction, instructional, action, section, fiction, sanction, fraction, election, function, reaction, selection, objection, infection, attraction, collection, projection, protection, connection, functional, prediction, inspection, take action, reflection, and function, conviction.