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  • verb Present participle of auction.

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Examples

  • Chicago Cubs to begin auctioning off season tickets.

    The FREAK-est Links - Freakonomics Blog - NYTimes.com 2008

  • Chicago Cubs to begin auctioning off season tickets.

    The FREAK-est Links - Freakonomics Blog - NYTimes.com 2008

  • Speaker of the House John Boehner R-Ohio touched on several tech points in his speech to the National Association of Religious Broadcasters and spoke out against the idea of auctioning the national debt.

    Boehner decries net neutrality, debt auctions in speech to broadcasters 2011

  • As late as the 1970s, the FCC dismissed the idea of auctioning spectrum, saying the odds of such a thing happening were "those on the Easter Bunny in the Preakness."

    Better Broadband Is No 'Joke' L. Gordon Crovitz 2010

  • As late as the 1970s, the FCC dismissed the idea of auctioning spectrum, saying the odds of such a thing happening were "those on the Easter Bunny in the Preakness."

    Better Broadband Is No 'Joke' L. Gordon Crovitz 2010

  • As late as the 1970s, the FCC dismissed the idea of auctioning spectrum, saying the odds of such a thing happening were "those on the Easter Bunny in the Preakness."

    Better Broadband Is No 'Joke' L. Gordon Crovitz 2010

  • However, we are 2,000 points below where we were when essentially this plan, the idea of auctioning off troubled toxic assets, was originally brought to bear.

    CNN Transcript Mar 24, 2009 2009

  • Its main gripe with the package is a so-called auctioning provision, which would require power companies to pay for permits to pollute instead of being given most of them.

    Recession Clouds Chances for EU Climate Pact 2008

  • The auction Web site insisted the reselling of the tickets was not illegal under British law, but later removed them after Geldof called the auctioning of charity tickets "sick profiteering."

    Live 8's Lineup 2007

  • Is it me that he is referring to as auctioning off signed copies of 'Hello' magazine?

    The art of celebrity 2006

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