(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.
Yid
Definition:
Example Sentences:
(1) Nonetheless, before taking YID-001 for a spin on the Tuggeranong Parkway, Murrumu and his associates did inform the police that the car licensed to the Yidiindji government would be driving on local roads.
(2) Our film was sparked by the behaviour of a Chelsea fan who, sitting a few seats behind me and Ivor one Saturday, decided to upgrade the chant – regularly heard at Stamford Bridge whenever anything Spurs-related comes up – to a more pointed one of "Fuck the fucking Yids!
(3) Three years ago, me and my brother Ivor made a short film for Kick Racism Out of Football called The Y-Word , which attempted to challenge the acceptability of the chanting of the word Yid (and other antisemitic chants) across a variety of London clubs.
(4) Many Chelsea fans who I have challenged feel they are justified because "the Yids is what Spurs call themselves".
(5) That includes baiting Liverpool fans about Hillsborough, calling Spurs fans “Yids”, old loyalist songs about the IRA, taking drugs and openly flouting smoking bans inside grounds, starting fights and generally invoking negative and outdated stereotypes about fans from different parts of the country or other countries.
(6) Now, during a visit to the national capital he has, since 2 January, been driving around in YID-001, a car that was, Murrumu says, “licensed to the sovereign Yidindji government” on the first day of the new year.
(7) But Murrumu said he decided to release YID-001 “in Ngambri (Canberra in Walgalu, the language of the custodians of the plains upon which the national capital is imposed) for the very symbolic gesture that the head office called Parliament House of the Commonwealth of Australia is located there”.
(8) The comedian and writer David Baddiel, a Chelsea fan, also argued the use of Yid and similar words is antisemitic.
(9) So while the businessman David Harding can reasonably suggest that words such as “geek” and “nerd” are as offensive as “nigger” and “yid”, we know that they are not.
(10) Tottenham Hotspur fans resisted the threat of criminal action over chanting of the word "yid" during their home match with Norwich.
(11) Tottenham Hotspur fans have been told they could be arrested if they use the word "Yid" during the club's home match against West Ham United on Sunday as the simmering row over Spurs supporters' routine use of the words "Yid Army", "Yids" or "Yiddo" led to a warning over their behaviour from the Metropolitan police.
(12) The black and gold plates read: “ Yidindji - YID-001 - Pursuant to Yidindji Tribal Law.” The car’s driver is Murrumu Walubara Yidindji, a man in his 40s from the country around Cairns, north Queensland , who last year decided to voluntarily “leave Australia” and live by the tribal law of his Indigenous people, the Yidindji.
(13) The car he was driving, fitted with black and gold number plates reading YID 001, had also come to police attention and the plates were taken.
(14) Their fans regularly parade the club's Jewish credentials, chanting "Yid Army", "Yids" or "Yiddo".
(15) The prime minister told the Jewish Chronicle last month there was "a difference between Spurs fans self-describing themselves as Yids and someone calling someone a Yid as an insult", adding: "You have to be motivated by hate.
(16) In the third minute of the game "We'll sing what we want" rang around White Hart Lane, followed by the traditional cry of "Yid Army".