uniform price auction
auction
verb[ T ]
 COMMERCE, E-COMMERCEuk /ˈɔːkʃən/us(alsoauction off)
to sell something in a public auction:
The stamps will be auctioned tomorrow.
The family is auctioning off its art collection.

Examples of auction

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By the time it was her turn to be auctioned, the majority of the audience had already left.
An even more powerful strike at the power of stage contractors was the department's newfound ability to monitor local auctions for stage service.
Their property, though sequestered, was not classified as biens nationaux and auctioned off.
Due to the emergence of auctions, direct contacts between producers and sellers declined and this altered the nature and existence of the spousal cooperation.
Horticultural auctions have also been shown to help small farmers remain economically viable and enhance family and social position12-14.
Financing, or access to capital, is essential to the start-up activities of horticultural auctions.
However, the variegated and inconsistent lessons drawn from their participation indicate that the role game theorists actually played in the auctions is not well understood.
We particularly illustrated how auctions could be made secure and foster truth revelation on the part of bidders.
Typical examples of complex distributed applications are social simulations, supply-chain management, electronic auctions, e-institutions, or business-to-business applications.
Strategic game theory is best suited to contexts and applications where the rules of the game are precisely described, like elections, auctions, internet transactions.
Such auctions are known to have taken place as far back as the 1830s, if not before.
Other mechanisms have been proposed, including auctions of patents.
The paper then discusses how different emission control instruments, including emissions taxes, auctioned emissions permits, and grandfathered emissions permits, provide incentives for innovation.
In such a model, each player controls a number of agents (for example, software agents) which participate in asynchronous parallel multi-agent interactions (for example, auctions).
When human or arti®cial agents negotiate in auctions they do not necessarily require speech acts and logic to carry out sophisticated transactions.
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We all remember what used to happen in the artauction world.
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