(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.
Outbid
Definition:
(imp.) of Outbid
(p. p.) of Outbid
(v. t.) To exceed or surpass in bidding.
Example Sentences:
(1) He would later tut-tut about this, as an error of judgment, and as a cause of relief to him that he was outbid.
(2) Friess said that while producers will benefit most from the pipeline, refineries along the Gulf—which he described as the "most sophisticated refineries in the world"—will profit, too, because they'll be able to outbid other refining markets for Canadian crude.
(3) In doing so he outbid his former employer, BSkyB, and easily outbid previous rights holders ESPN and Yahoo, which controlled parts of the digital rights that were previously split into different packages.
(4) During the renegotiation in 2011, Microsoft made a substantial offer to replace Google with its Bing search engine; Google, though, outbid it and now pays an average of $22m per month.
(5) Ballmer outbid several other potential buyers, most notably a group consisting of Oprah Winfrey, Oracle chief executive Larry Ellison and David Geffen – a multicultural ownership which would have been amusing from a karmic standpoint.
(6) That friendship ended acrimoniously when Jackson outbid McCartney when the Beatles' publishing catalogue came up for sale in 1985 – essentially, Jackson now owned all of McCartney's 1960s songs.
(7) DMGT tried to buy the Daily Telegraph and Sunday Telegraph four years ago but was outbid by the current owners, Sir David and Sir Frederick Barclay.
(8) It's quite likely that Google will seek to outbid Microsoft again this year.
(9) Birt recalled how Frost only got the interview with Nixon because he raised the money personally, outbidding a US broadcaster.
(10) "We had abuse from the buyers because they think the market is dreadful and they couldn't believe they had been outbid."
(11) It wanted to hang on to The Voice, but was outbid for the next series by ITV.
(12) The dinosaur skull bought by actor Nicolas Cage after he outbid fellow A-lister Leonardo DiCaprio could now return to bite him where it hurts, after it is apparently part of a criminal inquiry into illegally imported fossil remains, according to the Daily Telegraph .
(13) Far cheaper options with proven track records of deflecting from rapid reoffending have been mindlessly eschewed on occasions without number.In the early 90s, the home secretary Douglas Hurd tried hard but then shallow electoral considerations had both Conservative and Labour administrations outbidding each other with more of the same counterproductive and populistic non-sequiturs We still have time to learn from the financial and social mess the US prison estate is now in before it is too late.
(14) "It should raise concerns if no competitors are actually able to outbid Sky for major studio content in the coming year."
(15) Spain’s two biggest clubs, Real Madrid and Barcelona, were able to reach lucrative TV deals that enabled them to consistently outbid rival clubs for players.
(16) In this climate it is absurd that in the recent leaders’ debate political parties were attempting to outbid each other on the number of GPs they could magically produce in the next parliament.
(17) He can match the SNP on abandoning Britain’s nuclear deterrent, outbid it on opposing austerity and press harder on public ownership of industry.
(18) In a 55-page document, they argue that the satellite broadcaster has the funds to outbid rivals for "must see" content such as Premier League football and Hollywood blockbusters that attract subscribers and thus revenue.
(19) So where once David Cameron called Ukip a bunch of "fruitcakes, loonies and closet racists" , now his party seeks to outbid them with weekly announcements of benefit and immigration crackdowns.
(20) In an interview with the Guardian in October she accused politicians of trying to outbid each other in their opposition to terrorism.