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auction house

n. 1 a company that runs auctions. 2 a building in which auctions are conducted.

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auction house

n. a firm that conducts auctions

Usage examples of "auction house".

It suited Pa, with his auction house and antiques business in the Saepta Julia by the Pantheon.

The New Orleans auction house was opening its doors to a wider audience.

To buy from a reputable slave auction house or a reputable private trainer, you have to be trustworthy, and your staff must be tested and approved and your house must be safe.

Or if I spent a year liquidating, feeding them into the right auctions, negotiating the auction house percentage, he could come out with a half million.

Another cheque, drawn by the financial director of the auction house, was sent to Coutts &amp.

The auction house is a solid, two-story, wood and brick building with a peaked roof and no windows on the ground floor.

Beddoe, one of the high priests of the great Bond Street auction house of Torringtons, and his mien is serious.

This same Jimmy Etcitty found a pot somewhere near Bluff which he sold to a collector who sold it to an auction house.

Threnody made some notes in the booklet he had been given when he had registered at the auction house on Wisconsin Avenue.