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bid
1[ bid ]
verb (used with object)
- to command; order; direct:
to bid them depart.
Synonyms: , ,
- to express (a greeting, farewell, benediction, or wish):
to bid good night.
- Commerce. to offer (a certain sum) as the price one will pay or charge:
They bid $25,000 and got the contract.
Synonyms: , ,
- Cards. to enter a bid of (a given quantity or suit):
to bid two no-trump.
- to summon by invitation; invite.
verb (used without object)
- to command; order; direct:
I will do as you bid.
- to make a bid:
She bid at the auction for the old chair.
noun
- an act or instance of bidding.
Synonyms: , ,
- Cards.
- an offer to make a specified number of points or to take a specified number of tricks.
- the amount of such an offer.
- the turn of a person to bid.
- an invitation:
a bid to join the club.
- an attempt to attain some goal or purpose:
a bid for election.
- Also called bid price. Stock Exchange. the highest price a prospective buyer is willing to pay for a security at a given moment.
verb phrase
- Commerce. to increase the market price of by increasing bids.
- Commerce. to overbid all offers for (property) at an auction in order to retain ownership.
bid
2[ bid ]
verb
- past participle of bide.
b.i.d.
3abbreviation for
- (in prescriptions) twice a day.
B.I.D.
4abbreviation for
- Bachelor of Industrial Design.
b.i.d.
1abbreviation for
- bis in die
bid
2/ ɪ /
verb
- often foll byfor or against to offer (an amount) in attempting to buy something, esp in competition with others as at an auction
- commerce to respond to an offer by a seller by stating (the more favourable terms) on which one is willing to make a purchase
- tr to say (a greeting, blessing, etc)
to bid farewell
- to order; command
do as you are bid!
- intrusually foll byfor to attempt to attain power, etc
- tr to invite; ask kindly
she bade him sit down
- bridge to declare in the auction before play how many tricks one expects to make
- bid defianceto resist boldly
- bid fairto seem probable
noun
- an offer of a specified amount, as at an auction
- the price offered
- commerce
- a statement by a buyer, in response to an offer by a seller, of the more favourable terms that would be acceptable
- the price or other terms so stated
- an attempt, esp an attempt to attain power
- bridge
- the number of tricks a player undertakes to make
- a player's turn to make a bid
- short for bid price
Derived Forms
- ˈ, noun
Other 51Թ Forms
- · noun
51Թ History and Origins
Origin of bid1
Origin of bid2
51Թ History and Origins
Origin of bid1
Origin of bid2
Idioms and Phrases
- bid fair. fair 1( def 29 ).
Example Sentences
Amazon has placed a bid on TikTok, as the April 5 deadline nears for a potential sale of the social media company.
Democratic primaries are heating up with progressive candidates generating early hype and centrist candidates who lost their 2024 bids announcing new campaigns in the hopes that conditions in 2026 can deliver them a win.
Under the two proposals that collapsed, the city negotiated only with the Angels rather than put the property up for bid and see what developers might offer, with or without a stadium included.
The university has put the five-bedroom home previously used by its former principal on the market in a bid to raise some funding.
AFP, citing Mr Dhaliwal, said Mr Polyakov blew a whistle off the shore of the island in a bid to attract the attention of the tribe for about an hour.
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Definitions and idiom definitions from Dictionary.com Unabridged, based on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2023
Idioms from The American Heritage® Idioms Dictionary copyright © 2002, 2001, 1995 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company.
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