(finance) A type of bid at an auction which is made by the auctioneer on behalf of the vendor, without any desire to buy the article. This is used as a tactic to keep the bids moving, or to persuade buyers to pay more, or merely to have a higher price to report if the property is passed in. Such a bid is in essence a fiction; if not clearly announced as such, it approaches the deliberate deception of a dummy bid.

plural of vendetta

(Zoroastrianism) A collection of texts within the greater compendium of the Avesta. By content, an enumeration of various manifestations of evil spirits, and ways to confound them.

A westerly wind, especially one that blows into the Mediterranean Sea around the area of the Straits of Gibraltar and Morocco, or a similar wind in the Philippines.

plural of vendor-agnostic

plural of vendee

The person to whom something is sold; a purchaser.

(property law, rare) An act of claiming property. / Misspelling of vindication.

(obsolete, transitive) To exhibit, as though for sale; to show off.

plural of vendace