(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.
Redouble
Definition:
(v. t.) To double again or repeatedly; to increase by continued or repeated additions; to augment greatly; to multiply.
(v. i.) To become greatly or repeatedly increased; to be multiplied; to be greatly augmented; as, the noise redoubles.
Example Sentences:
(1) King Salman of Saudi Arabia urged the redoubling of efforts to “eradicate this dangerous scourge and rid the world of its evils”.
(2) In the period of observation the proportion of isolated E. coli redoubled and was nearly 68% in 1984.
(3) France, which hosted last December’s summit, ratified in June and François Hollande has called on countries to redouble their efforts to ratify before the next major UN climate summit in Marrakesh in November.
(4) But the former Conservative defence secretary Liam Fox claimed the timing of the Isaf statement was unfortunate, saying: "We need to redouble our efforts to make it very clear to the forces of terror that they cannot push our strategy off course."
(5) Russia’s nuclear sabre-rattling is unjustified, destabilising and dangerous Jens Stoltenberg In blunt language, the Nato chief delivered a scathing critique of Russia’s behaviour over the past year – including Moscow’s armed intervention in Ukraine – and vowed the transatlantic alliance would redouble its commitment to “collective defence”.
(6) That is not to say the terrorists won't redouble their efforts.
(7) We believe that Roger can best be honoured by redoubling our commitment to protect elephants and our priceless wildlife heritage.
(8) Redoubled efforts are required to prevent and overcome the restricted access of highly sensitized patients to the increasingly successful outcome of renal transplantation.
(9) Far from signalling the demise of an impossible ideal, the death of the Co-op's ambitions should only encourage ministers, campaigners and consumers to redouble their efforts, and demand better banking.
(10) And that means we must all redouble our efforts to wipe out antisemitism.” May’s pledge came two days after Britain’s leading counter-terror officer, Mark Rowley, warned about increased antisemitism around the world and heightened concern about possible attacks on the Jewish community in Britain .
(11) Now researchers may be forced to redouble their efforts.
(12) Frustrated by his inability to deal with EU migration, Cameron will inevitably redouble efforts to rein in non-EU migration, which might be popular for a while, not least because it might also curb visible migration by non-white Commonweath types.
(13) One organisation has redoubled its efforts, however, organising a rush of public meetings with Liberal Democrat MPs to remind them, it says, that their traditionally grassroots-based party should know better than to back such a measure.
(14) We emphasize that HIV and AIDS, malaria, tuberculosis, influenza, polio and other communicable diseases remain serious global concerns, and we commit to redoubling efforts to achieve universal access to HIV prevention, treatment, care and support, and to eliminate mother to child transmission of HIV as well as to renewing and strengthening the fight against malaria, tuberculosis, and neglected tropical diseases.
(15) In further research on these complex problems, researchers are encouraged to use operational definitions that avoid terms like abuse and violence, to focus new efforts on emotional mediators of violent actions, to evaluate the effects of violence on the entire family system, and to redouble efforts to conduct systematic outcome research.
(16) If compounds like these validate the hypothesis that inhibition of 5-LO will have a significant anti-inflammatory effect, a redoubling of effort throughout the industry to find second- and third-generation selective agents may be expected.
(17) The new tool will also outline how many people in each area smoke – the average across England is 18% – in the hope that this will spur GPs and other health professionals to redouble their efforts to get people to quit smoking, which is recognised as a major risk factor for dementia.
(18) That's why this year, 2014, we are not just going to stick to the plan – we are going to redouble our efforts to deliver every part of it, to benefit the whole country and secure a better future for everyone."
(19) But the former Conservative defence secretary Liam Fox said the timing of the Isaf statement was unfortunate, saying: "We need to redouble our efforts to make it very clear to the forces of terror that they cannot push our strategy off course."
(20) If anything, the leaked report will encourage Mullah Omar, the Pakistan-linked Haqqani network and other factions to redouble their efforts to inflict maximum damage and humiliation on retreating western forces.