[f. AUCTION + -EER. (Cf. med.L. auctiōnārius, auctiōnātor, one who increases the price, a regrater.)] One who conducts sales by auction.

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1708.  in Kersey.

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1762.  Lond. Mag., XXXI. 296. An Auctioneer and a Fishmonger.

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1841.  Borrow, Zincali, I. iv. II. 289. He had perhaps talked more than an auctioneer during a three days’ sale.

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  (attrib.)  1865.  Carlyle, Fredk. Gt., III. X. i. 200. To describe this Crown-Prince Mansion … with auctioneer minuteness.

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