Bid

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  • intransitive verb. undefined
  • intransitive verb. To offer or propose (an amount) as a price.
  • intransitive verb. To auction (a contract).
  • intransitive verb. To offer (someone) membership, as in a group or club.
  • intransitive verb. To state one's intention to take (tricks of a certain number or suit in cards).
  • intransitive verb. To utter (a greeting or salutation).
  • intransitive verb. To issue a command to; direct.
  • intransitive verb. To invite to attend; summon.
  • intransitive verb. To make an offer to pay or accept a specified price.
  • intransitive verb. To seek to win or attain something; strive.
  • noun. undefined
  • noun. An offer to pay a certain amount of money for something.
  • noun. The amount offered or proposed.
  • noun. An invitation, especially one offering membership in a group or club.
  • noun. An earnest effort to win or attain something.
  • noun. undefined
  • noun. The act of bidding in cards.
  • noun. The number of tricks or points declared.
  • noun. The trump or no-trump declared.
  • noun. The turn of a player to bid.
  • phrasal verb. To outbid on one's own property at an auction in order to raise the final selling price.
  • phrasal verb. To offer (work) for bids from outside contractors.
  • phrasal verb. To cause (a price) to rise by increasing the amount bid.
  • idiom. (bid defiance) To refuse to submit; offer resistance to.
  • idiom. (bid fair) To appear likely.
  • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • noun. An offer of a price; specifically, an offer made or the price offered at an auction: as, to increase another's bid.
  • To ask; request; invite.
  • To pray; wish earnestly or devoutly; hence, to say by way of greeting or benediction: as, to bid good-day, farewell, etc.
  • To command; order or direct; enjoin.
  • To offer; propose: as, to bid a price at an auction.
  • To raise the price of in bidding; increase the amount offered for: with up: as, to bid up a thing beyond its value.
  • To proclaim; make known by a public announcement; declare: as, “our bans thrice bid,” Gay, What d'ye Call it?
  • To make an offer; offer a price: as, to bid at an auction.
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • transitive verb. 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).
  • transitive verb. To offer in words; to declare, as a wish, a greeting, a threat, or defiance, etc.
  • transitive verb. To proclaim; to declare publicly; to make known.
  • transitive verb. To order; to direct; to enjoin; to command.
  • transitive verb. To invite; to call in; to request to come.
  • transitive verb. to pray with beads, as the Roman Catholics; to distinguish each bead by a prayer.
  • transitive verb. to defy openly; to brave.
  • transitive verb. to offer a good prospect; to make fair promise; to seem likely.
  • intransitive verb. To pray.
  • intransitive verb. To make a bid; to state what one will pay or take.
  • noun. 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.
  • imp. & p. p. of bid.
  • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • verb. To issue a command; to tell.
  • verb. To invite; to summon; to offer.
  • verb. To utter a greeting or salutation.
  • verb. To make an offer to pay or accept a certain price.
  • verb. To offer as a price.
  • Word Usage
    "Not that I’m planning to bid, but: if I *bid* $2,500 – or $25,000 – and no-one else raises the ante above $2,025.01, presumably I’d win at $2,050 or so."
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    Cid  Kid  Kidd  Kyd  Madrid  
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    agreement  attempt  bidder  bidding  bids  
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    bade  bidden  bidding  
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    bade  bidden  bidding  bids