(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.
Ticketing
Definition:
(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Ticket
(n.) A periodical sale of ore in the English mining districts; -- so called from the tickets upon which are written the bids of the buyers.
Example Sentences:
(1) In 2013, the town’s municipal court generated $221,164 (or $387 for each of its residents), with much of the fees coming from ticketing non-residents.
(2) "It's a ticket that is going to win in order to bring out an agenda of transformation.
(3) So if you are, for example, going on maternity leave in 17 weeks' time you can ask the booking office for a 17-week season ticket, which will be cheaper than buying a series of monthlies and weeklies.
(4) Rawlins bought a stake in Stoke City in 2000, where he'd been a season ticket-holder from the age of five, after selling off his IT consultancy company and joined the board.
(5) Manchester United Would you vote in favour of a £30 cap on away tickets?
(6) Another was a mock-up of a speeding ticket for Mr G Bale, Campeón de Copa, for overtaking recklessly, crossing a continuous white line.
(7) But 30 minutes before takeoff on our private jet – like a top-end Lexus limo with wings – actress Rosamund Pike has heroically stepped in for the year's hot meal ticket: an El Bulli supper, pitch perfect for a selection of rare champagne, devised by Adrià with Richard Geoffroy, Dom Pérignon's effervescent chef de cave.
(8) Train companies are making passengers pay disproportionate penalties for having the wrong ticket and criminalising people who have no intention of dodging fares, a government watchdog has warned.
(9) Like Donald Trump’s campaign today, the Know Nothings (who watered down their name to the “American Party” in 1856 when Fillmore ran for president on their ticket) appealed to those who saw native-born Americans losing out to immigrants.
(10) During Nicolas Sarkozy's unsuccessful 2012 re-election campaign she was mocked for not knowing the price of an underground train ticket (she said €4 instead of €1.70).
(11) "The soaring cost of air travel will ultimately be a small factor in increased rail fares, as the ONS said plane tickets pushed the inflation index higher.
(12) It went ahead with the hospitality on Monday and Tuesday – using around 96 tickets – but has called off all further formal entertainment.
(13) In 2004, fewer than 100,000 tickets were sold for arena standup gigs.
(14) Buy carnet tickets Carnets were introduced by First Capital Connect to offer slightly lower fares to those who travel into London two or three times a week, but not enough to make it cost-effective to buy a season ticket.
(15) But homewares, which Street calls the store chain's "point of fame", are well down as a result of fewer people moving house and therefore not popping in to John Lewis to order big-ticket items such as carpets, curtains and furniture.
(16) Last week, it emerged that the firm was sending out tickets to members of the public that were originally intended for Games sponsors.
(17) Yet here comes Bloomberg — a former Democrat turned Republican turned independent who many thought might run for president himself on a third-party ticket — throwing his support behind Obama , citing climate as the proximate reason for his hop off the fence: Our climate is changing.
(18) And I decided that the best way for me to come to America was to become a bodybuilding champion, because I knew that was the ticket the instant that I saw a magazine cover of my idol, Reg Park.
(19) Liverpool’s Ian Ayre urges fans to ‘look at facts’ over ticket prices Read more The FSF chief executive, Kevin Miles, who has been leading its Twenty’s Plenty campaign for a £20 cap, said: “We are incredibly disappointed to learn that a proposed cap on away ticket prices was voted down by the Premier League clubs yesterday in a secret ballot.
(20) • San Francisco fans may struggle to get hold of a ticket to their game in Seattle on Sunday, after the Seahawks restricted sales to just six US states and two Canadian provinces .