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auctioneers

auctioneers is the plural of auctioneer.

auctioneers is the third-person singular simple present indicative of auctioneer.

Meaning of auctioneer

Noun

auctioneer (plural auctioneers)

  1. An individual who conducts an auction on behalf of a vendor, accepting bids to find the best price for the vendor.
    • The auctioneer, with his fruity, theatrical voice and his gavel, hits a block of wood in precisely the same spot, no matter the day.2002, Zadie Smith, The Autograph Man, Penguin Books (2003), page 102

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Questions about auctioneers

What is auctioneers the plural of?
Auctioneers is the plural of auctioneer.

Words near auctioneers in the dictionary

  1. auctioneer
  2. auctioneered
  3. auctioneeress
  4. auctioneeresses
  5. auctioneering
  6. auctioneers
  7. auctioner
  8. auctioners
  9. auctionese
  10. auctiongoer
  11. auctiongoers

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Adapted from Wiktionary: auctioneers (page history and authors); auctioneer (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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