dutch auction
荷兰拍卖,荷兰式拍卖,荷兰拍卖会,荷兰人的拍卖
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- : a method of auction consisting in the offer of a property at a price above the actual value and then at gradually reduced prices until a buyer is found.
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Between June and October 1943, 4,283 British, 1,303 Dutch, 1,630 Australian, and 88 American soldiers died.
This return scam involved purchasing broken electronics off the auction site and then buying new items off store shelves.
Along the Prado they used to sell slaves on the auction block, too.
We want to be the global auction house for the new collector at lower price points and create a more liquid market.
Paddle8 works better than a smaller regional auction house because it is nimbler and its costs—to the seller and buyer—are lower.
Mrs. Woodbury paints in oils and water-colors; the latter are genre scenes, and among them are several Dutch subjects.
She did her work at a most interesting period in Dutch painting.
The stratagem worked, because the ships went about from one tack to the other without being seen by the Dutch.
The vessel escaped miraculously, with sails torn by shots from three Dutch vessels, which they took for one of their own.
The fire crackled around the Dutch ovens, and the odor of coffee came floating by.