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Government auction
Auction held for state-owned or state-sold property / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
A government auction or a public auction is an auction held on behalf of a government in which the property to be auctioned is either property owned by the government or property which is sold under the authority of a court of law or a government agency with similar authority.[1][2][3]