bidverb
uk/bɪd/us/bɪd/bid verb (OFFER)
C2 [ I or T ] present participle bidding, past tense bid, past participle bid to offer a particular amount of money for something that is for sale and compete against other people to buy it, especially at a public sale of goods or property:
[ I ] present participle bidding, past tense bid, past participle bid If two or more people bid for a job, they compete with each other to do the work by offering to do it for a particular amount of money:
[ T + to infinitive ] present participle bidding, past tense bid, past participle bid If someone bids to do something, they compete with other people to do it:
[ I or T ] present participle bidding, past tense bid, past participle bid (in some card games) to say, before play starts, how many points you expect to win in a particular game:
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- Online auctions, where buyers bid for items over the internet, have become increasingly popular.
- How much did you bid for that antique vase?
- Five countries are bidding to host the next World Cup.
- The game gives players the chance to bid for property.
- The council invited contractors to bid for the right to build on the site of the old City Hall.
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Negotiating prices
- bargain
- bargaining power
- barter
- beat
- beat sb down
- cap
- dicker
- drive
- drive a hard bargain idiom
- gazump
- gazunder
- haggle
- negotiable
- negotiate
- non-negotiable
- predatory pricing
- quotation
- quote
- settle
- settle on sth
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bid verb (TELL)
[ T ] present participle bidding, past tense bid or bade, past participle bidden old-fashioned to give a greeting to someone, or to ask someone to do something:
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Giving orders & commands
- all-points bulletin
- bade
- boss
- bossyboots
- chain of command
- charge
- crack the whip idiom
- defy
- demand
- enjoin
- expect
- forget
- harry
- lay down the law idiom
- mandate
- ordain
- order sb around
- overbearing
- prescribed
- steamroller
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bidnoun [ C ]
uk/bɪd/us/bɪd/bid noun [ C ] (OFFER)
C2 an offer of a particular amount of money for something that is for sale:
C1 an offer to do something when you are competing with other people to do it:
(in some card games) a statement, made before play starts, of how many points a player thinks he or she will get in a particular game :
More examples
- The hospital is making approaches to local businesses in their bid to raise money.
- They've put in a bid for the company/a bid to buy the company.
- At the last minute another company stepped forward with a bid.
- Their million-pound bid for the company was trumped at the last moment by an offer for almost twice as much from their main competitor.
- The company's shares wobbled with the news of a foreign takeover bid.
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Buying
- acquisitiveness
- approval
- bidding war
- bite
- brand loyalty
- bulk-buy
- import
- invest
- kick the tires idiom
- load up on sth
- money-off
- on the slate idiom
- order form
- order sth in
- over the counter idiom
- send out for sth
- shop around
- shopaholic
- shopping
- stock up
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bid noun [ C ] (ATTEMPT)
C2 an attempt to achieve or get something:
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Trying and making an effort
- a blitz on sth idiom
- all-out
- assault
- attempt
- attempted
- crack
- go the extra mile idiom
- go to great lengths idiom
- God helps those who help themselves idiom
- grasp at sth
- grope
- push
- seek
- shoot
- stick
- strain every nerve idiom
- stretch a/the point idiom
- strive
- strove
- succeed
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