"silent auction" meaning in All languages combined

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    {
      "form": "silent auctions",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    }
  ],
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      "expansion": "silent auction (plural silent auctions)",
      "name": "en-noun"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "2003, Kevin B. Kent, Fundraising for the small community, page 43:",
          "text": "A well-run silent auction for a normal event should raise anything between $500 and $3000 and sometimes, considerably more.",
          "type": "quote"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "An auction where people write secret bids on a piece of paper, and whoever has the highest bid wins the item."
      ],
      "id": "en-silent_auction-en-noun-4oxYP8Gg",
      "links": [
        [
          "auction",
          "auction"
        ],
        [
          "bid",
          "bid"
        ]
      ]
    },
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            "Entries with incorrect language header",
            "Entry maintenance"
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        },
        {
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          "parents": [],
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        },
        {
          "_dis": "31 69",
          "kind": "topical",
          "langcode": "en",
          "name": "Philanthropy",
          "orig": "en:Philanthropy",
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            "Society",
            "All topics",
            "Fundamental"
          ],
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        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "An auction held over a long period of time where people write public bids on a piece of paper, and whoever has the highest bid wins the item."
      ],
      "id": "en-silent_auction-en-noun-lCuaixiy",
      "links": [
        [
          "auction",
          "auction"
        ],
        [
          "bid",
          "bid"
        ]
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "silent auction"
}

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    "English countable nouns",
    "English entries with incorrect language header",
    "English lemmas",
    "English multiword terms",
    "English nouns",
    "Pages with 1 entry",
    "Pages with entries",
    "en:Philanthropy"
  ],
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "silent auctions",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {},
      "expansion": "silent auction (plural silent auctions)",
      "name": "en-noun"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        "English terms with quotations"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "2003, Kevin B. Kent, Fundraising for the small community, page 43:",
          "text": "A well-run silent auction for a normal event should raise anything between $500 and $3000 and sometimes, considerably more.",
          "type": "quote"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "An auction where people write secret bids on a piece of paper, and whoever has the highest bid wins the item."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "auction",
          "auction"
        ],
        [
          "bid",
          "bid"
        ]
      ]
    },
    {
      "glosses": [
        "An auction held over a long period of time where people write public bids on a piece of paper, and whoever has the highest bid wins the item."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "auction",
          "auction"
        ],
        [
          "bid",
          "bid"
        ]
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "silent auction"
}