Auction
51auction sale — 1. The seller seeks competing bidders for the target company or business. This competitive process benefits the seller as it enables it to obtain the best price and sale terms and control the documents (which it normally drafts) and timetable. 2 …
52Auction Match Trade — ( UT) The total volume of trades executed at the auction match price are disseminated to the market as a single trade denoted by UT. London Stock Exchange Glossary …
53auction match trade — ( UT) The total volume of trades executed at the auction match price are disseminated to the market as a single trade denoted by UT. London Stock Exchange Glossary …
54auction ring — UK US noun [C] (also bidders ring) COMMERCE ► a group of buyers at an auction (= public sale) who make an illegal agreement not to compete against one another to buy things, in order to keep the price low. They then sell what they have bought at… …
55auction room — ˈauction room 7 [auction room] noun a building in which ↑auctions are held …
56auction something off — ˌauction sthˈoff derived to sell sth at an ↑auction, especially sth that is no longer needed or wanted • The Army is auctioning off a lot of surplus equipment. Main entry: ↑auctionderived …
57Auction bridge — Auc tion bridge A variety of the game of bridge in which the players, beginning with the dealer, bid for the privilege of naming the trump and playing with the dummy for that deal, there being heavy penalties for a player s failure to make good… …
58Auction Pitch — Auction Pitch, a card game which is a popular variationof All Fours. The name is derived from the rule thatthe first card played, or pitched, is the trump suit, and that theeldest hand has the privilege of pitching it or of selling outto the… …
59auction bridge — n. a variety of the game of bridge in which the players bid for the right to say what suit shall be trump or to declare no trump: the extra tricks the declarer wins beyond his bid count toward a game: see also CONTRACT BRIDGE …
60Auction rate security — An auction rate security (ARS) typically refers to a debt instrument (corporate or municipal bonds) with a long term nominal maturity for which the interest rate is regularly reset through a dutch auction. It could also refer to a preferred stock …
