競(せ)り

せり
noun
auction; bidding
1. auction; competitive bidding
A sale in which buyers compete by offering increasingly higher prices. Especially associated with early-morning fish and produce auctions at Japanese wholesale markets like Tsukiji and Toyosu. From the verb 競る (to compete, to bid).
朝(あさ)の競(せ)りが始(はじ)まった。
The morning auction has started.
豊洲(とよす)市場(しじょう)の競(せ)りを見学(けんがく)した。
I observed the auction at Toyosu Market.
初(はつ)競(せ)りで一番(いちばん)マグロが三億円(さんおくえん)で落札(らくさつ)された。
The top tuna was sold for 300 million yen at the year's first auction.

CULTURE:
Japan's wholesale fish market auctions are famous worldwide. The 初(はつ)競(せ)り (first auction of the year) at Toyosu Market regularly makes international news when record prices are paid for premium tuna, a tradition symbolizing good fortune for the new year.

COMMON COLLOCATIONS:

  • 初(はつ)競(せ)り (first auction of the year)
  • 競(せ)りにかける (to put up for auction)
  • 競(せ)り落(お)とす (to win at auction)
  • 競(せ)り値(ね) (auction price)
  • 魚(さかな)市場(しじょう)の競(せ)り (fish market auction)
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