bidding
Idioms about bidding
do someone's bidding, to submit to someone's orders; perform services for someone: After he was promoted to vice president at the bank, he expected everyone around him to do his bidding.
Origin of bidding
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How to use bidding in a sentence
According to Deadline, Apple acquired the film "following a competitive bidding war" involving four bidders, including multiple studios and another streaming company.
Apple TV+ acquires a “sci-fi courtroom drama” about a murderous robot doll | Samuel Axon | February 11, 2021 | Ars TechnicaTarget impression share bidding will optimize your bids in order to maximize your ad impressions on the SERPs.
Smart Bidding: Five ways machine learning improves PPC advertising | Gabrielle Sadeh | February 10, 2021 | Search Engine WatchIf advertisers’ campaigns do not have a set automated strategy currently set up, they will lose access to manual bidding this spring.
Microsoft Ads to replace Manual CPC with Enhanced CPC by end of April | Carolyn Lyden | February 9, 2021 | Search Engine LandThe first executive said Taboola has come to the publisher with offerings that “start to play on the more traditional ad banner types of inventory” usually associated with header bidding.
Publishers worry Taboola’s SPAC funding could make them more dependent on its ad revenue | Sara Guaglione | February 8, 2021 | DigidayIn such a scenario, would Apple open up a bidding war for the opportunity, or would it do something fairly shocking… create its own search engine.
The future of Google and what it means for search | Pete Eckersley | February 5, 2021 | Search Engine Watch
So, whose bidding do we think these candidates are going to do?
In a neat line, his agent, beginning a bidding war, promised: “Michiko Kakutani will flip for this.”
What On Earth Is ‘The Affair’ About? Season One’s Baffling Finale | Tim Teeman | December 22, 2014 | THE DAILY BEASTMcDonnell was poised to be the beneficiary of a bidding war among the biggest law firms.
Tough-Guy Pols Let Wives Take the Fall, Maureen McDonnell Edition | Eleanor Clift | August 26, 2014 | THE DAILY BEASTHe was bidding a final farewell to the 9/11 nightmare and the odyssey to kill Osama bin Laden.
Unfortunately for the wannabe-thugs at 1325 G St., the friendly officers of the DCPD were not about to do their bidding.
Watch RT, Putin's TV Network, Call the Cops on Me | James Kirchick | March 7, 2014 | THE DAILY BEASTbidding a young bank manager take charge of the detachment, Frank led the newcomer rapidly to headquarters.
The Red Year | Louis TracyGordon Wright stood there, looking at him—with a gaze which Bernard returned for a moment before bidding him to come in.
Confidence | Henry JamesBefore bidding the men go that way, he had satisfied himself that there was a key on the outside of the door.
St. Martin's Summer | Rafael SabatiniIn the street the men of his escort sat their horses, having mounted at his bidding in readiness for the journey.
St. Martin's Summer | Rafael SabatiniBut this small fear was immediately dissipated when she ran in after bidding Amy good-night.
The Campfire Girls of Roselawn | Margaret Penrose
British Dictionary definitions for bidding
/ (ˈbɪdɪŋ) /
an order; command (often in the phrases do or follow the bidding of, at someone's bidding)
an invitation; summons
the act of making bids, as at an auction or in bridge
bridge a group of bids considered collectively, esp those made on a particular deal
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