auction off
Intermediate (B1)neutral
To sell something where people take turns saying how much they'll pay, and whoever offers the most money gets it.
"The gallery auctioned off a rare Picasso sketch for over two million dollars."
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that and we'll we'll auction off for I say auction off,
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their rights to seize and auction off
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and the government will auction off the patents
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guard auction off the Roman Empire to him.
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that we cannot auction off the obscene ones