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单词 outbid
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Definition of outbid in English:

outbid

verboutbids, outbidding aʊtˈbɪdˌaʊtˈbɪd
[with object]
  • Offer to pay a higher price for something than (another person)

    residential builders could always outbid any farmer for the land round London
    Example sentencesExamples
    • He acted on a gut feeling and stepped in to pay £5 for the dish, outbidding a woman who was trying to haggle the stallholder down to £1.
    • One of these allowed a security firm to win contracts by outbidding its rivals, courtesy of its lower labour costs.
    • I was outbid on everything but the filters, which I'd only really bid on to reduce postage from the seller.
    • If anyone outbids me in the next hour I'm going to unleash my fists of fury.
    • They are outbidding anyone who wants to buy a pharmacy.
    • Again and again I was frustratingly outbid, then finally I sunk one.
    • They bought it unexpectedly by outbidding me at auction a few months ago, saying that as they live opposite it, they wanted to ensure my rival at the auction didn't get it.
    • I bought it at an auction and outbid a man who looked like Santa Claus.
    • They just outbid us and that was a disappointment.
    • Between that and the vendor signing the contract, there were two other buyers who tried to outbid me.
    • It seems the deep-pocketed lady has taken to spending every waking hour outbidding anyone who dares cross her path.
    • The other bidder thought himself to be clever and waited with his bid until eight seconds before the end of auction and obviously did not have the time to place another bid when he saw that he was still outbid.
    • Unconfirmed reports suggested that he had created many enemies as he was able to outbid his opponents for many government projects.
    • I could hardly believe it when I was outbid by so much.
    • To outbid another player, you must bid a higher number.
    • No one can outbid you after the sale and the vendor is equally legally bound to complete the sale on the day and under the terms stipulated in the contract.
    • Now he tries to outbid us with claims about the number of civil servants he's going to sack.
    • Firstly, somebody outbid me in the last two minutes of an auction.
    • This person, because of his low bid, will miss out on the opportunity to own the car altogether since his rivals will simply outbid him.
    • ‘We looked for more than a year and a half, but things were selling so fast and people kept outbidding us,’ he explains.

Rhymes

amid, backslid, bid, did, forbid, grid, hid, id, kid, Kidd, lid, Madrid, mid, outdid, quid, rid, skid, slid, squid, underbid, yid
 
 

Definition of outbid in US English:

outbid

verbˌaʊtˈbɪdˌoutˈbid
[with object]
  • Offer to pay a higher price for something than (another person)

    residential builders could always outbid any farmer for the land
    Example sentencesExamples
    • Unconfirmed reports suggested that he had created many enemies as he was able to outbid his opponents for many government projects.
    • I could hardly believe it when I was outbid by so much.
    • It seems the deep-pocketed lady has taken to spending every waking hour outbidding anyone who dares cross her path.
    • Between that and the vendor signing the contract, there were two other buyers who tried to outbid me.
    • They bought it unexpectedly by outbidding me at auction a few months ago, saying that as they live opposite it, they wanted to ensure my rival at the auction didn't get it.
    • One of these allowed a security firm to win contracts by outbidding its rivals, courtesy of its lower labour costs.
    • This person, because of his low bid, will miss out on the opportunity to own the car altogether since his rivals will simply outbid him.
    • ‘We looked for more than a year and a half, but things were selling so fast and people kept outbidding us,’ he explains.
    • Again and again I was frustratingly outbid, then finally I sunk one.
    • Firstly, somebody outbid me in the last two minutes of an auction.
    • I bought it at an auction and outbid a man who looked like Santa Claus.
    • He acted on a gut feeling and stepped in to pay £5 for the dish, outbidding a woman who was trying to haggle the stallholder down to £1.
    • They just outbid us and that was a disappointment.
    • Now he tries to outbid us with claims about the number of civil servants he's going to sack.
    • No one can outbid you after the sale and the vendor is equally legally bound to complete the sale on the day and under the terms stipulated in the contract.
    • The other bidder thought himself to be clever and waited with his bid until eight seconds before the end of auction and obviously did not have the time to place another bid when he saw that he was still outbid.
    • If anyone outbids me in the next hour I'm going to unleash my fists of fury.
    • I was outbid on everything but the filters, which I'd only really bid on to reduce postage from the seller.
    • To outbid another player, you must bid a higher number.
    • They are outbidding anyone who wants to buy a pharmacy.
 
 
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