The phrase "auction down" is not correct and does not have a clear meaning in written English.
It may be intended to describe the process of reducing the price of an item in an auction, but the expression is not standard.
Example: "The auctioneer decided to auction down the starting price to attract more bidders."
Alternatives: "lower the auction price" or "reduce the bidding price".
Six-month bills averaged 7.14percentt at the auction, down from 7.28percentt.
It paid 6.34percentt at yesterday's auction, down from the recent market rate of 6.75percentt.
The auction had been live for a few days before Apple contacted eBay, shutting the auction down before the proto-iPhone made it "out there".
The '53 was pretty hard to find — but there's that big auction down in Scottsdale, and if you've got the dough, you can get the car".
Shortly before the bidding commenced, Salmon and Alaska Native Wireless, a partner of AT&T Wireless, each made up-front auction down payments of nearly $240 million -- staggering sums, considering that to qualify for small-business status, a company could not have gross revenues of more than $125 million in each of the last two years.
Of foreclosures going through the diversion program, less than 6percentt of foreclosures filed in the second half of 2009 ended in sales at sheriff's auctions, down from over 27percentt of foreclosures filed before the program began, the Reinvestment Fund's study found.
Be sure to compare your stamps as accurately with those depicted in the auctions, down to the specifics of their condition.
Prices of his works at auction are down by about 60percentt since their extraordinary peak in 2007, according to Artnet, the art market information company.
However, other insiders close to the bidding process insist that the 3i consortium remains "very confident" about its chances as the auction goes down to the wire.
(See: "Location, Location, Location" and " Gaming The System").. Participants will likely have to wait months and scores of rounds before the auction winds down and the winners are finalized.
Held in the center room of the mansion, the slave auction went down at about 2AM.
