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bid

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[ bid ]

verb (used with object)

biddingbidden or bid or bid bade or (Archaic) bad or bid
  1. to command; order; direct:

    to bid them depart.

    Synonyms: enjoin, require, charge

  2. to express (a greeting, farewell, benediction, or wish):

    to bid good night.

  3. Commerce. to offer (a certain sum) as the price one will pay or charge:

    They bid $25,000 and got the contract.

    Synonyms: proffer, tender, offer

  4. Cards. to enter a bid of (a given quantity or suit):

    to bid two no-trump.

  5. to summon by invitation; invite.


verb (used without object)

biddingbade or (Archaic) bad or bid bidden or bid or bid
  1. to command; order; direct:

    I will do as you bid.

  2. to make a bid:

    She bid at the auction for the old chair.

noun

  1. an act or instance of bidding.

    Synonyms: proffer, proposal, offer

  2. Cards.
    1. an offer to make a specified number of points or to take a specified number of tricks.
    2. the amount of such an offer.
    3. the turn of a person to bid.
  3. an invitation:

    a bid to join the club.

  4. an attempt to attain some goal or purpose:

    a bid for election.

  5. 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

  1. Commerce. to increase the market price of by increasing bids.
  2. Commerce. to overbid all offers for (property) at an auction in order to retain ownership.

bid

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[ bid ]

verb

, Archaic.
  1. past participle of bide.

b.i.d.

3

abbreviation for

  1. (in prescriptions) twice a day.

B.I.D.

4

abbreviation for

  1. Bachelor of Industrial Design.

b.i.d.

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abbreviation for

  1. bis in die
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012


bid

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/ bɪd /

verb

  1. often foll byfor or against to offer (an amount) in attempting to buy something, esp in competition with others as at an auction
  2. commerce to respond to an offer by a seller by stating (the more favourable terms) on which one is willing to make a purchase
  3. tr to say (a greeting, blessing, etc)

    to bid farewell

  4. to order; command

    do as you are bid!

  5. intrusually foll byfor to attempt to attain power, etc
  6. tr to invite; ask kindly

    she bade him sit down

  7. bridge to declare in the auction before play how many tricks one expects to make
  8. bid defiance
    to resist boldly
  9. bid fair
    to seem probable
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012

noun

    1. an offer of a specified amount, as at an auction
    2. the price offered
  1. commerce
    1. a statement by a buyer, in response to an offer by a seller, of the more favourable terms that would be acceptable
    2. the price or other terms so stated
  2. an attempt, esp an attempt to attain power
  3. bridge
    1. the number of tricks a player undertakes to make
    2. a player's turn to make a bid
  4. short for bid price
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012
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Derived Forms

  • ˈbidder, noun
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Other Words From

  • bid·der noun
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Word History and Origins

Origin of bid1

before 900; Middle English bidden, Old English biddan to beg, ask; cognate with Old Frisian bidda, Old Saxon biddian, Old High German bittan ( German bitten ), Old Norse bithja, Gothic bidjan; all < Germanic *bid-ja- (< Indo-European *bhidh- ) command, akin to Greek peíthein to persuade, inspire with trust, English bide

Origin of bid2

From Latin bis in diē
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Word History and Origins

Origin of bid1

Latin: twice a day

Origin of bid2

Old English biddan ; related to German bitten
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Idioms and Phrases

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Example Sentences

Earlier this week, Huckabee ended his Fox News talk show so he could spend time mulling another bid for the Republican nomination.

He lost his bid for a fourth term to George Pataki that year.

Get ready to bid farewell to the spitfire Bobby Bottleservice and big booty player Ref Jeff.

Another crowd moved west in an apparent bid to block the Holland Tunnel.

Sen. Mary Landrieu did everything she could Monday night to salvage the shards of her bid for a fourth term in the U.S. Senate.

Here were the sources (in part) of the Po and of the Rhine, but I was rather in haste to bid the former good-bye.

Nor shall we do more hereafter if you do my pleasure now and give this Monsieur de Garnache the answer that I bid you.

Nor can he sell the property to himself, nor authorize any other person to bid and purchase for him either directly or indirectly.

The clerk went as he was bid, but stupified and stunned by the information he had received.

You had better go to him, Dolly, and bid him good bye, before he takes the team to the field.

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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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