bid
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change- (countable) A bid is an offer to enter into a contract to buy something or to do some kind of job.
- He amazed the art world with his winning bid of nearly $54 million for Van Gogh's painting, Irises.
- The Suns also made a bid for $2.3 million to get Willis from the Bulls.
- (countable) A bid is an attempt to do something.
- He went back to teaching after his unsuccessful presidential bid in 1988.
- She lost her bid at a world record fourth gold medal in swimming.
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- (transitive & intransitive) If you bid for something, you offer to enter into a contract to buy it or to do it.
- Microsoft bid $44.6 billion to acquire Yahoo.
- (transitive & intransitive) If you bid for something, you attempt to do or get it.
- Montesinos, decided not to bid for the new position.
- They bid on and won a job to build a bank in Marietta, Ohio.
- (transitive) If you bid someone a good day, evening, etc., you wish it to them in greeting.
- She bade farewell to her sister, Fannie, and to other relatives and friends.
- (transitive) If you bid someone (to) do something, you tell them to do it.
- Standing with her back to the open door, she bade him pass.
- The past tense and past participle of bid.