public sale

noun

1. auction.

Word History and Origins

Origin of public sale¹

First recorded in 1670–80

Example Sentences

Those tickets were available for clubs to order from July last year, while public sale was September before two sell outs were announced in January.

From BBC

The firm has since spent millions on renovations, “exactly as intended by Merced County when the property was sold in an open and public sale process,” company attorney Richard Marchini said in a written statement.

From Los Angeles Times

A group of TSwift fans did file a class-action lawsuit against Ticketmaster over its handling of the Eras Tour when a planned public sale of tickets was canceled because of what the ticketing agency described as “extraordinarily high demands on ticketing systems” resulting in “insufficient remaining ticket inventory to meet that demand.”

From Los Angeles Times

Presale tickets are now available for $75 for general admission, while the public sale for the daylong event begins March 15 with tickets ranging from $65 to $175.

From Seattle Times

Henry Wellcome, the voracious American-born British pharmaceutical entrepreneur who amassed a collection of more than a million scientific and archaeological artifacts during his lifetime, bought several at a 1928 public sale.

From Los Angeles Times