bid

(bĭd)

1. To issue a command to; direct.
2. To utter (a greeting or salutation).
3. To invite to attend; summon.
4. past tense and past participle bid bid Games To state one's intention to take (tricks of a certain number or suit in cards): bid four hearts.
5. past tense and past participle bid bid To offer or propose (an amount) as a price.
6. past tense and past participle bid bid To offer (someone) membership, as in a group or club: “glancing around to be sure that he had been bid by a society that he wanted” (Louis Auchincloss).

1. past tense and past participle bid bid To make an offer to pay or accept a specified price: decided not to bid on the roll-top desk.
2. past tense and past participle bid bid To seek to win or attain something; strive.

1. a. An offer or proposal of a price.
   b. The amount offered or proposed: They lost the contract because their bid was too high.
2. An invitation, especially one offering membership in a group or club.
3. Games
   a. The act of bidding in cards.
   b. The number of tricks or points declared.
   c. The trump or no-trump declared.
   d. The turn of a player to bid.
4. An earnest effort to win or attain something: made a bid for the presidency.

Related Forms:

• bidˈder noun