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An example use of auction in a speech by a native speaker of british english:
“… cache of bitcoins and auction them off …”
An auction is a public sale of goods or services, usually held by a person or company to raise money for a charitable cause.
the word auction occurs in english on average 13.3 times per one million words; this frequency warrants it to be in the study list for C1 level of language mastery according to CEFR, the Common European Framework of Reference.