bid-up
the act or an instance of increasing the price of something by forcing the bidding upward.
the amount of such increase: a bid-up of 100 percent in the last year.
Origin of bid-up
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How to use bid-up in a sentence
Hopped up on momentum and dreams, investors often bid up shares of companies beyond all reasonable valuation.
Tesla’s Rise Forces Other Automakers to Up Their Electric Car Game | Daniel Gross | September 25, 2013 | THE DAILY BEASTCreating new money to bid up asset prices is also inflationary.
Japan’s Fiscal Crossroads: Will Abenomics Mean Tougher Changes? | Daniel Gross | July 26, 2013 | THE DAILY BEASTAs a result, prices have been bid up, and the equity premium has shrunk dramatically.
People with higher incomes can bid up and outbid people with less money for desirable goods and services, in this case, housing.
Parents are so obsessed with school quality that they reliably bid up the prices of homes in neighborhoods with good schools.
Charles Murray’s ‘Coming Apart’ and the Culture Myth | Ralph Richard Banks | February 8, 2012 | THE DAILY BEAST
Now, folks, bid up fast and talk loud when you bid so I can hear you.
Patchwork | Anna Balmer MyersAll the best points have been sold, and real estate on the Ristigouche has been bid up to an absurd figure.
Little Rivers | Henry van DykeThey let their own artists starve—they make them come over here—while they bid up a Raphael like a block of shares.
Read-Aloud Plays | Horace Holley"That fellow to the south seems to have decided to bid up for the Savannah River entrance on the next tack, sir," I reported.
Wide Courses | James Brendan ConnollyMcGinity would bid up to whatever he thought the proposition worth, and not a dollar more.
The Land of Strong Men | Arthur M. Chisholm
British Dictionary definitions for bid up
(adverb) to increase the market price of (a commodity) by making artificial bids
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Other Idioms and Phrases with bid-up
Raise a price by raising one's offer, as in We were hoping to get an Oriental rug cheaply, but the dealer kept bidding us up. This phrase is used in business and commerce, particularly at auctions. [Mid-1800s]
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