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单词 overbid
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overbid

verb (overbids, overbidding; past and past participle overbid) /ˈəʊvəbɪd / [no object]
1(In an auction) make a higher bid than a previous bid: I’d once seen him blithely overbid for a tiny James I miniature portrait...
  • Knowledge is power, and that way you won't overbid.
  • But this guy overbid me by something like 50% of my maximum bid.
  • Media hype and too much wine at dinner may lead a wealthy collector to overbid for a work at auction (but there must have been an underbidder).
2(In competitive tendering, the auction at bridge, etc.) bid more than is warranted or manageable.Presumably it is legal to expose an identical pair to begin with to make it more difficult for other players to overbid, or to overbid a single card directly with a triple, and so on....
  • ‘Now our larger competition is overbidding prices like crazy,’ he says.
  • So canny employers are often willing to pay the finest foreign talent even more than they pay local talent - not underbidding for foreign talent, as nativists fear, but often overbidding.
noun /ˈəʊvəbɪd /
A bid that is higher than another or higher than is justified.

Derivatives

overbidder

noun
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