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[Bid]

If you make the winning bid on an item, you offer the highest price and get to take it home. Congratulations, and enjoy your new paper weight!

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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).

Noun
an attempt to get something; "they made a futile play for power"; "he made a bid to gain attention"

Noun
(bridge) the number of tricks a bridge player is willing to contract to make

Noun
a formal proposal to buy at a specified price

Noun
an authoritative direction or instruction to do something

Verb
ask for or request earnestly; "The prophet bid all people to become good persons"

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Verb
ask someone in a friendly way to do something

Verb
invoke upon; "wish you a nice evening"; "bid farewell"

Verb
make a serious effort to attain something; "His campaign bid for the attention of the poor population"

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propose a payment; "The Swiss dealer offered $2 million for the painting"

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make a demand, as for a card or a suit or a show of hands; "He called his trump"

of Bid

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.

Bid

Bid , v. t. [imp. Bade , Bid, (Obs.) Bad; p. p. Bidden , Bid; p. pr. & vb. n. Bidding.] [OE. bidden, prop to ask, beg, AS. biddan; akin to OS. biddian, Icel. bija, OHG. bittan, G. bitten, to pray, ask, request, and E. bead, also perh. to Gr. to persuade, L. fidere to trust, E. faith, and bide. But this word was early confused with OE. beden, beoden, AS. be'a2dan, to offer, command; akin to Icel. bja, Goth. biudan (in comp.), OHG. biotan to command, bid, G. bieten, D. bieden, to offer, also to Gr. to learn by inquiry, Skr. budh to be awake, to heed, present OSlav. budti to be awake, E. bode, v. The word now has the form of OE. bidden to ask, but the meaning of OE. beden to command, except in "to bid beads." &root;30.] 1. 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). 2. 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.

Neither bid him God speed.

He bids defiance to the gaping crowd.

3. To proclaim; to declare publicly; to make known. [Mostly obs.] "Our banns thrice bid !" Gay. 4. To order; to direct; to enjoin; to command.

That Power who bids the ocean ebb and flow.

Lord, if it be thou, bid me come unto thee.

I was bid to pick up shells.

5. To invite; to call in; to request to come.

As many as ye shall find, bid to the marriage.

To bid beads, to pray with beads, as the Roman Catholics; to distinguish each bead by a prayer. [Obs.] -- To bid defiance to , to defy openly; to brave. -- To bid fair, to offer a good prospect; to make fair promise; to seem likely. Syn. -- To offer; proffer; tender; propose; order; command; direct; charge; enjoin.

Bid

Bid , imp. & p. p. of Bid.

Bid

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.

Bid

Bid, v. i. [See Bid, v. t.] 1. To pray. [Obs.] Chaucer. 2. To make a bid; to state what one will pay or take.

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).

imp. & p. p. of Bid.

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.

To pray.

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Usage Examples

Not just in commerce but in the world of ideas too our age is putting on a veritable clearance sale. Everything can be had so dirt cheap that one begins to wonder whether in the end anyone will want to make a bid.

The whole kiss-and-tell thing is a negative approach that often happens in a World Cup. We will see negative stories about the players and it can affect their confidence and the overall performance of the national team on the pitch, let alone the bid to actually stage the competition.

There were two things going on: 1) I had already established in my own mind where I wanted to go with the next series, and having James around as a Grey Eminence would have complicated matters. He had had an amazing life and it was time to bid him good-bye.

Beauty is the disinterested one, without which the ancient world refused to understand itself, a word which both imperceptibly and yet unmistakably has bid farewell to our new world, a world of interests, leaving it to its own avarice and sadness.

Misspelled Form

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Other Usage Examples

Whenever I have bid a hasty goodbye to a loved one, I've always made sure that my record collection was safely stored away in the boot of the car.

I now bid farewell to the country of my birth - of my passions - of my death a country whose misfortunes have invoked my sympathies - whose factions I sought to quell - whose intelligence I prompted to a lofty aim - whose freedom has been my fatal dream.

I hope we shall crush in its birth the aristocracy of our monied corporations which dare already to challenge our government to a trial by strength, and bid defiance to the laws of our country.

Let peace, descending from her native heaven, bid her olives spring amidst the joyful nations and plenty, in league with commerce, scatter blessings from her copious hand!

The teacher who is indeed wise does not bid you to enter the house of his wisdom but rather leads you to the threshold of your mind.