auctioneer

IPA: ɑkʃʌnˈɪr

An individual who conducts an auction on behalf of a vendor, accepting bids to find the best price for the vendor.

Examples of "auctioneer" in Sentences

She is the daughter of a livestock auctioneer, which is an appropriate background.
But you talked earlier about how it was kind of like a circus and the auctioneer was the ...
"And here, " called the auctioneer, -we have one of the cathces of Kliomenes, taken near Lara.
The auctioneer is amazing, like something out of a Tex Avery cartoon, motormouthing a mile a minute.
Mark Jaffe, the Fort York auctioneer, is a gifted motormouth who runs his tongue 95mph with wit and wild abandon.
I'm beginning to wonder if our auctioneer is the only person left on the planet who calls Master-Card by the old "Master-Charge."
We put 'em into Joe Stevenson's hands to sell -- that was what every one called the auctioneer -- and walked down the long street.
The attitude of collectors, according to Tom Eden of London coin auctioneer Morton & Eden, is "with little return on investments, what's wrong with putting money into your hobby?"
Ring announcer Bruce Buffer, who has a disturbing baby face with the high pompadour of an auctioneer from the cattle lots in Oklahoma, steps into the octagon to introduce the card.