bidding

[Bid·ding]

A person's bidding is what he or she tells you to do for them. You do your brother's bidding when he asks you to bring him his shoes and you comply.

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Command; order; a proclamation or notifying.

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

Noun
an authoritative direction or instruction to do something

Noun
a request to be present; "they came at his bidding"


p. pr. & vb. n.
of Bid

n.
Command; order; a proclamation or notifying.

n.
The act or process of making bids; an offer; a proposal of a price, as at an auction.


Bidding

Bid"ding, n. 1. Command; order; a proclamation or notifying. "Do thou thy master's bidding." Shak. 2. The act or process of making bids; an offer; a proposal of a price, as at an auction.

Command; order; a proclamation or notifying.

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Usage Examples

Auction houses run a rigged game. They know exactly how many people will be bidding on a work and exactly who they are. In a gallery, works of art need only one person who wants to pay for them.

Misspelled Form

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Other Usage Examples

Now, let me be clear. The path I lay out is not one paved with ever increasing government checks and cradle to grave assurance that government will always be the solution. If this election is a bidding war for who can promise the most goodies and the most benefits, I'm not your president. You have that president today.

How can a doctor judge a woman's sanity by merely bidding her good morning and refusing to hear her pleas for release? Even the sick ones know it is useless to say anything, for the answer will be that it is their imagination.

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