A book is sold to the highestbidder at auction, but is the amount bid likely to be the maximum the winner is willing to pay?
Microeconomics: Price Theory in Practice (1995)
Most of it will, like our other national treasures, be sold off to the highestbidders.
The Sun (2013)
Freedom itself becomes a commodity, to be sold to the highestbidder -- or seized by the strongest power.
THE SCOTTISH ENLIGHTENMENT: The Scots' Invention of the Modern World (2002)
Definition of 'bidder'
bidder
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countable noun
A bidder is someone who offers to pay a certain amount of money for something that is being sold. If you sell something to the highest bidder, you sell it to the person who offers the most money for it.
Definition of 'high'
high
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adjective
You can use high to indicate that something is great in amount, degree, or intensity.