bid - use in sentences

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.

Noun used with modifier

  • 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.

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.

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