put up for auction

  • 1put up for auction — offer for sale at an auction …

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  • 2put up for — PHRASAL VERB If you put something up for sale or auction, for example, you make it available to be sold or auctioned. [V n P P n] The company should put its claims up for review by an arbitrator... [V n P P n] The old flower and fruit market has… …

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  • 3put up for — phr verb Put up for is used with these nouns as the object: ↑adoption, ↑auction …

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  • 4put up to auction — place for sale by public bidding …

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  • 5auction — A common method of issuing gilts. Similar to a tender offer. In an auction, investors apply to buy the new gilts being issued, specifying the amount they wish to purchase and the price they are prepared to pay. The new gilts will be issued to… …

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  • 6Put Down Your Whip — Artwork title=Put Down Your Whip artist=Xu Beihong year=1939 type=Oil painting height=144 width=90 Put Down Your Whip is a 1939 oil painting by Chinese Realism painter Xu Beihong. Completed during Xu s stay in Singapore, the painting was… …

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  • 7Put — An option granting the right to sell the underlying futures contract. Opposite of a call. The New York Times Financial Glossary * * * ▪ I. put put 1 [pʊt] verb put PTandPP putting PRESPART …

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  • 8put — An option contract giving the buyer the right to sell something at a specified price within a certain period of time. A put is purchased in expectation of lower prices. If prices are expected to rise, a put may be sold. The seller receives the… …

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  • 9auction — auc|tion1 [ˈo:kʃən US ˈo:k ] n [U and C] [Date: 1500 1600; : Latin; Origin: auctio increase , from augere ( AUGMENT); because the money offered increases] a public meeting where land, buildings, paintings etc are sold to the person who offers the …

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  • 10auction — 1 noun (C) a public meeting where land, buildings, paintings etc are sold to the person who offers the most money for them: put sth up for auction (=try to sell something at an auction): The house was put up for auction. | auction house (=a… …

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