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bid¹ /bid/

1. To offer, esp to offer to pay at an auction
2. To propose (how many tricks one will win, eg in bridge)
3. To proclaim (eg the banns of marriage)

1. To make an offer or proposal, esp to state a price one will charge for work to be done
2. To make an attempt to win or achieve something

1. An offer of a price
2. The amount offered
3. An attempt to win or achieve something (press)
4. A call (cards)

biddˈable adjective

1. Tractable, easily persuaded or controlled
2. Capable of or fit for bidding (cards)

biddˈer noun

biddˈing noun

1. An offer, the offering of a price
2. The act or process of making bids (cards)
3. The bids made (cards)

bid/offer spread noun

In a financial market, the difference between the bid and offer prices, representing the dealer's margin

bid price noun

The price at which a professional dealer is willing to buy shares or other items from the market

bid fair

To seem likely

bid in

(of an owner or his or her agent) in an auction, to overbid the highest offer

bid up

To raise the market price of (something) artificially, by means of specious bids, etc

bid² /bid/

1. To invite
2. To command (archaic)
3. To ask for (archaic)
4. To pray (obsolete)
5. To greet with, say as a greeting

biddˈing noun

1. Someone's orders or commands
2. A command
3. An invitation

biddˈing-prayer noun

1. Orig the praying, or saying, of a prayer, then by confusion with bid¹taken to mean enjoining or inviting of prayer
2. A petitionary prayer said just before the sermon
3. A prayer of intercession for the living and the dead, said in English churches until the Reformation

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