dutch auction

基本解释

In practice, however, the Dutch auction is not widely used.
然而在實際中，荷蘭式拍賣竝未被廣泛應用。
"Dutch auction" is also sometimes used to describe online auctions where several identical goods are sold simultaneously to an equal number of high bidders.
"荷蘭式拍賣"有時也指網上拍賣，這種網拍形式同時爲數量相等的高競價買家提供數件相同的物品。
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.
在傳統的荷蘭式拍賣中，拍賣師以相對較高的價格起拍，然後逐步降低，直至有人願意接受拍賣師開出的價格。

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.