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Auctioneers manage auctions and other public sales at which people can bid on items. Their job is to curate and organize the goods for sale at an auction, as well as to oversee the bidding. The term Auctioneer comes from auction, which has a Latin root: auctionem, "increasing sale or public sale," which derives from augere, "to increase."

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