dutch auction

基本解释

In practice, however, the Dutch auction is not widely used.
然而在实际中，荷兰式拍卖并未被广泛应用。
"Dutch auction" is also sometimes used to describe online auctions where several identical goods are sold simultaneously to an equal number of high bidders.
"荷兰式拍卖"有时也指网上拍卖，这种网拍形式同时为数量相等的高竞价买家提供数件相同的物品。
In the traditional Dutch auction the auctioneer begins with a high asking price which is lowered until some participant is willing to accept the auctioneer's price.
在传统的荷兰式拍卖中，拍卖师以相对较高的价格起拍，然后逐步降低，直至有人愿意接受拍卖师开出的价格。

Facebook could have chosen to avoid the pop by doing a Dutch auction-style offering, as Google (GOOG) did in 2004.
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In a Dutch auction, a company reveals the maximum amount of shares being sold and sometimes a potential price for those shares.
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The Dutch auction allows "a better price-discovery system, " Hambrecht says.
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A Dutch auction is an auction in which the prices of items are gradually reduced until someone buys them.