(v. t.) To make an offer of; to propose. Specifically : To offer to pay ( a certain price, as for a thing put up at auction), or to take (a certain price, as for work to be done under a contract).
(v. t.) To offer in words; to declare, as a wish, a greeting, a threat, or defiance, etc.; as, to bid one welcome; to bid good morning, farewell, etc.
(v. t.) To proclaim; to declare publicly; to make known.
(v. t.) To order; to direct; to enjoin; to command.
(v. t.) To invite; to call in; to request to come.
() imp. & p. p. of Bid.
(n.) An offer of a price, especially at auctions; a statement of a sum which one will give for something to be received, or will take for something to be done or furnished; that which is offered.
(v. t.) To pray.
(v. t.) To make a bid; to state what one will pay or take.
Example Sentences:
(1) It is not clear whether Sports Direct, which has a history of taking strategic stakes in related companies including Debenhams and JD Sports, will now make a bid.
(2) However, the significantly lower relative bioavailabilities for the prolonged-action hydroxymethylnitrofurantoin formulations suggest that Urfadyn PL 100 mg bid and Uridurine 100 mg tid are not pharmacokinetically equivalent to Furadantine MC.
(3) The number of seats has been reduced from 72,000 to 68,000, with another 12,000 to be added after the Games to meet the 80,000 minimum required in case Japan launches a bid to host the football World Cup.
(4) Asked whether the 2022 bid should be reopened in the wake of the allegations in the Sunday Times, Cameron said: "There is an inquiry under way, quite rightly, into what happened in terms of the World Cup bid for 2022.
(5) Read more Grabban, who moved to Carrow Road from Bournemouth in 2014 for around £3m, has been a target for Eddie Howe for some time and the manager had three bids for him turned down in the summer.
(6) Sainsbury’s revealed on Tuesday that it had made an approach to buy Home Retail , which also owns DIY chain Homebase, and sources expect the company to return with another bid.
(7) At a private meeting last Tuesday, Hunt assured Cameron and the cabinet secretary, Sir Jeremy Heywood, that he had not been aware that his special adviser, Adam Smith, was systematically leaking information and advice to News Corp about its bid for BSkyB.
(8) Taxpayers will pick up an immediate £40m bill for compensating the four shortlisted companies that bid for the west coast franchise.
(9) 8.25am BST As the day draws to a close it is time to bid the readers adieu and wrap up the live-blog for the day.
(10) Los Angeles were relentless in their vicious pursuit of a game-tying goal on Wednesday, bidding to send Game 4 into overtime.
(11) A deadline for bids had been set for the previous midnight, but East chose to ignore it.
(12) So Huck Finn floats down the great river that flows through the heart of America, and on this adventure he is accompanied by the magnificent figure of Jim, a runaway slave, who is also making his bid for freedom.
(13) One source said Coe's "knitting together" of cross-party political support to win the London Olympic bid puts him in a good light.
(14) Just months later, Grade popped up fronting a private-equity backed bid for Pinewood from the Rank Group.
(15) We wish to thank once again all the Chinese people and people around the world who have supported Beijing 2022 in this extraordinary bid journey.” Earlier, the president Xi threw his weight behind China’s bid, promising the “strongest support” for the Beijing Games in a one-minute video address to the IOC delegates.
(16) He was bidding on behalf of an unknown and clearly stupendously rich buyer.
(17) We continue to offer customers a great range of beer, lager and cider.” Heineken’s bid to raise prices for its products in supermarkets comes just a few months after it put 6p on a pint in pubs , a decision it blamed on the weak pound.
(18) April 12, 2016 Gardner, who previously supported Marco Rubio’s presidential bid, has yet to endorse any of the remaining three candidates.
(19) Before bids being lodged, sources had indicated that Sky was not prepared to make a knockout bid to snatch back the rights from BT, which has justified the expense to customers and shareholders as “financially disciplined”.
(20) A fired-up Lleyton Hewitt just fell short in his bid to steer Australia to an upset victory in their Davis Cup doubles showdown with the United States.
Biddable
Definition:
(a.) Obedient; docile.
Example Sentences:
(1) Without the moderate Davutoğlu, a former foreign minister, to balance and temper Erdoğan’s behaviour, and with a more biddable prime minister in his place – reports suggest Erdoğan’s son-in-law, the energy minister Berat Albayrak, may get the job – the precarious EU refugee agreement could soon be in serious jeopardy.
(2) These officers are, evidence has shown, entirely biddable.
(3) It can never further harmony, however, that anyone who has done a stint of full-time childcaring, on a reasonable income, will know exactly what a privileged SAH mother means by "a difficult job" – in a home equipped with labour-saving devices – once a biddable child is over three.
(4) What if, instead of choosing Truman – whom the pair psychopathologise as having unresolved "gender issues" and portray as weak, biddable and blustering ("To err is Truman," 1940s Republicans sneered) – as Roosevelt's vice-presidential candidate in the 1944 presidential election, the Democratic convention had once more chosen the now little-known Henry Wallace to be FDR's running mate?
(5) Thus, cut out of one of the most important decisions on his own company, he promises to be a more biddable, accommodating figure than Mr Hester – whose opposition to speeding up the sale of RBS is what got him chucked overboard.
(6) Analysing a genome, stripping out the surplus genes, recreating the rest artificially and then inserting the new chromosome into a cell from which the existing one had been removed – all this is merely the modern equivalent of spotting the fact that it would be a good idea to breed from the fattest and most biddable sheep.
(7) And, some on the right would whisper in the ears of biddable journalists, the poor really had no place in the world’s biggest property bubble.
(8) He was easygoing and biddable, with a genuine smile and ceaseless energy.
(9) It is clear that the most visible of the sons, Saif and Saadi, have their own lines of communication and influence with the various state security organs, not all of whom are as easily biddable as they would like.