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"etymology_text": "From auction + -eer.",
"forms": [
{
"form": "auctioneers",
"tags": [
"present",
"singular",
"third-person"
]
},
{
"form": "auctioneering",
"tags": [
"participle",
"present"
]
},
{
"form": "auctioneered",
"tags": [
"participle",
"past"
]
},
{
"form": "auctioneered",
"tags": [
"past"
]
}
],
"head_templates": [
{
"args": {},
"expansion": "auctioneer (third-person singular simple present auctioneers, present participle auctioneering, simple past and past participle auctioneered)",
"name": "en-verb"
}
],
"lang": "English",
"lang_code": "en",
"pos": "verb",
"senses": [
{
"categories": [
"English transitive verbs"
],
"glosses": [
"To sell at an auction; to auction."
],
"links": [
[
"sell",
"sell"
],
[
"auction",
"auction"
]
],
"raw_glosses": [
"(transitive) To sell at an auction; to auction."
],
"tags": [
"transitive"
]
},
{
"categories": [
"English intransitive verbs"
],
"glosses": [
"To act as an auctioneer."
],
"links": [
[
"act",
"act"
]
],
"raw_glosses": [
"(intransitive) To act as an auctioneer."
],
"tags": [
"intransitive"
]
}
],
"sounds": [
{
"rhymes": "-ɪə(ɹ)"
}
],
"translations": [
{
"code": "cmn",
"lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
"sense": "to sell at an auction",
"word": "拍賣"
},
{
"code": "cmn",
"lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
"roman": "pāimài",
"sense": "to sell at an auction",
"word": "拍卖"
},
{
"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "to sell at an auction",
"word": "huutokaupata"
},
{
"code": "fr",
"lang": "French",
"sense": "to sell at an auction",
"word": "enchérir"
},
{
"code": "gl",
"lang": "Galician",
"sense": "to sell at an auction",
"word": "poxar"
},
{
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "to sell at an auction",
"word": "versteigern"
},
{
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "to sell at an auction",
"word": "verauktionieren"
},
{
"code": "el",
"lang": "Greek",
"roman": "pleistiriázo",
"sense": "to sell at an auction",
"word": "πλειστηριάζω"
},
{
"code": "el",
"lang": "Greek",
"roman": "dimoprató",
"sense": "to sell at an auction",
"word": "δημοπρατώ"
},
{
"code": "pl",
"lang": "Polish",
"sense": "to sell at an auction",
"tags": [
"dated",
"imperfective"
],
"word": "aukcjonować"
},
{
"code": "pt",
"lang": "Portuguese",
"sense": "to sell at an auction",
"word": "leiloar"
},
{
"code": "ro",
"lang": "Romanian",
"sense": "to sell at an auction",
"word": "licita"
},
{
"code": "es",
"lang": "Spanish",
"sense": "to sell at an auction",
"word": "rematar"
},
{
"code": "es",
"lang": "Spanish",
"sense": "to sell at an auction",
"word": "subastar"
}
],
"word": "auctioneer"
}
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