Examples:
He auctioned his house, and he did it in one week.
He also auctioned his football medals to help the team through a bad spell.
A web designer auctioned off the use of his forehead for advertising space.
The storage company auctioned his belongings off to pay the unpaid bill.
Mappings:
VerbNet: price-54.4
FrameNet: NP
PropBank: auction.01,auction.02
WordNet 3.0 Sense Numbers: 1
WordNet Verb Particle Constructions, Multiword Expressions:
auction_off 1