bid¹ Definition
bid (bid)
transitive verb bade or bid, bid′·den or bid, bid′·ding, bid
- Obsolete to beseech or implore
- to command, ask, or tell do as you are bidden
- to offer (a certain amount) as the price or fee that one will pay or accept
- to declare openly to bid defiance
- to express in greeting or taking leave bid farewell to your friends
- ☆ Informal to offer membership to the fraternity may bid five new men
- Now Chiefly Dial. to invite
- Card Games to state (the number of tricks or points one proposes to take and, in bridge, whether one proposes to play the hand with a specified suit as trump or with no suit as trump) in an effort to win the right to name trump
Etymology: ME bidden, to ask, plead, pray < OE biddan < IE base *bheidh-, to urge, compel; meaning and form merged with ME beden, to offer, present < OE beodan, to command, decree < IE base *bheudh-, to be alert, announce
intransitive verb
to make a bid
noun
- a bidding of an amount
- the amount bid
- a chance to bid
- an attempt or try a bid for fame
- ☆ Informal an invitation, esp. to become a member
- Card Games
- the act of bidding
- the number of tricks, suit, etc. stated in a bid
- a player's turn to bid
bid¹ Related Forms
bid¹ Idioms
bid fair
to seem likely (to be or do something)
bid in
☆at an auction, to bid more than the best offer on one's own property in order to keep it
bid up
to raise the amount bid
bid² Definition
bid (bid)
intransitive verb
Obsolete bide
bid Synonyms
bid
n.
An offer
proposal, proposition, declaration, tender; see proposal 1, suggestion 1.An effort to gain an end
*An invitation
request, summons, proposal; see invitation 1, 2.
bid Synonyms
bid
v.
bid Finance Definition
- The purchase price of a stock, futures contract, or other investment. The term is used by market makers and other traders who are prepared to purchase an investment. In contrast, ask is the price of a stock or other investment that a market maker or trader is willing to sell an investment for. See also bid-ask spread.
- In the context of a merger agreement or attempted merger, bid indicates a proposed price.
bid Law Definition
n
n
v
firm bid
open bid
sealed bid
bid Usage Examples
Object
- farewell: We bid farewell to the White Cliffs on our short sea crossing to Calais in France.
- adieu: With that most important question settled, it was time to bid adieu.
Converse of object
- submit: Now over 70 projects have been asked to submit full bids.
- invite: You may think you can outsmart the management team by inviting competitive bids from trade buyers.
- reject: Mr Rose has been widely seen as the only man able to persuade shareholders to reject the bid from Mr Green.
Preposition: for
funding: We have also bid for the funding of induction mentors to support a cluster of primary schools.
Adjective modifier
- Olympic: Linford Christie sporting the now legendary Puma contact lenses prior to his Olympic bid - the ultimate in cool sportswear items.
- successful: Mr Hudson led the Council's successful bid to obtain Unitary status.
- desperate: People with OCD carry out these types of compulsion in a desperate bid to calm the anxiety caused by their obsessions.
- hostile: Had current events not intruded maybe Lotus ' fate would have been different, but in June 1995 IBM launched a hostile takeover bid.
- sealed: Following on-site inspections, sales will proceed by sealed bid.
- winning: We will also endeavor to make available any site surveys, obtain outline planning consent and make it available to the winning bid.
Modifies a noun
farewell: The Atari column bid farewell to TOS in the November 2000 issue of Computer Shopper.
Adjective complement
good-bye: After sympathizing with her and asking whether he could be of any service, he held out his hand to bid good-bye.
Noun used with modifier
- takeover: By this time the shares were 3p, thanks only to a takeover bid.
- take-over: It is Britain's most abundant fern and started its take-over bid as early settlers slashed and burned clearings in woodland across Britain.
- lottery: I then spend time with Marie talking about a lottery bid I am making and she has agreed to help me with.
- summit: Later, on Cotopaxi, just Jude and Craig opted to go to the hut, for the final summit bid.
- funding: The budgetary process results in funding bids being assessed against priorities, with many not being accepted.
- re-election: Most presidential re-election bids become a referendum on the incumbent's performance in the Oval Office.
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