Bid

Definitions: Bid

Bid

Noun

1. An authoritative direction or instruction to do something.

2. An attempt to get something; "they made a futile play for power"; "he made a bid to gain attention".

3. A formal proposal to buy at a specified price.

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

Verb

1. Propose a payment; as at sales or auctions; "The Swiss dealer offered $2 million for the painting".

2. Invoke upon; "wish you a nice evening"; "bid farewell".

3. Ask for or request earnestly; "The prophet bid all people to become good persons".

4. Make a demand in card games, as for a card or a suit or a show of hands; "He called his trump".

5. Make a serious effort to attain something; "His campaign bid for the attention of the poor population".

6. Ask someone in a friendly way to do something.

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Date "bid" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1010. (references)

Economics

Electrical Engineering

Finance

Law

Literature

Public Administration

Slang

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

Synonyms: Bid

Offer

Verb: offer, proffer, present, tender; bid; propose, move; make a motion, make advances; start; invite, hold out, place in one's way, put forward.

Noun: offer, proffer, presentation, tender, bid, overture; proposal, proposition; motion, invitation; candidature; offering; (gift).

Crosswords: Bid

Afrikaan (pray), Danish (bite).

Well gentlemen, now that the moment has come to bid you farewell, I congratulate both you, Doctor, and you, Professor, on your brilliant work in the development of the submarine tracking system. (The Spy Who Loved Me; writing credit: Christopher Wood)

I good you bid evening. (Vanilla Sky; writing credit: Alejandro Amenábar; Mateo Gil)

If any of you sweeties dares bid on my Slater I'll hunt you down in the street like a rabid dog. (Saved by the Bell; writing credit: Ana Maria Moretzsohn)

I bid you welcome. (Dracula; writing credit: John L. Balderston; Hamilton Deane)

Gentlemen, let's bid general Howe good morning. (George Washington; writing credit: Jon Boothe; Richard Fielder)

Got send up for a eight year bid ("The Message"; performing artist: Grandmaster Flash)

My dog is very obedient; he does what he is bid. A sign said "wet paint", and that's just what he did. (references; author: unknown)

Bid 'n' Buy (1958)

What's Your Bid (1953)

Bid It Up Sucker (1944)

A Million Bid (1927)

One Dollar Bid (1918)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

References

• BID Boerseninformationsdienst AG: International Competitive Benchmarks and Financial Gap Analysis (reference)

  (more reference examples)

Books

• Bid Better, Much Better After Opening 1 No-Trump: Bidding to Win at Bridge (reference)

• Bid Better, Play Better (reference)

• Bid Time Return (reference)

• House Broken: How I Remodeled My Home for Just Under Three Times the Original Bid (reference)

• Kovels' Bid, Buy, and Sell Online: Basic Auction Information and Tricks of the Trade (reference)

  (more book examples)

Periodicals

• Bid & Contract Opportunities (reference)

• Bid Information Service (reference)

• Bid Tabulations (reference)

• Florida Municipal County State Bid Bulletin (reference)

• Southern Bid Digest (reference)

  (more periodical examples)

Theater & Movies

• Hottest Bid (reference)

  (more DVD examples; more video examples)

Music

• I Bid You Goodnight (reference)

  (more classical music examples; more popular music examples)

High Tech

• FOR SPECIAL BID ONLY-CUST# 1085038 (reference)

  (more camera examples; more video game examples; more computer examples; more electronic examples; more software examples)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

As the auctioneer knocks down the last bid on each basket of tobacco in the warehouse, the price is immediately recorded, and the farmers go to the "money box" to get their money. Douglas, Georgia.Credit: Library of Congress.

Women wait while their husbands bid at the auction of the farm of Mr. Anthony Yacek. Near Derby, Connecticut.Credit: Library of Congress.

Fur buyer figuring out his bid on the next lot of muskrat pelts. The auction sale is held in a dance hall on Delacroix Island, Saint Bernard Parish, Louisiana.Credit: Library of Congress.

Fur buyer handing FSA (Farm Security Administration) supervisor his bid on the next lot of muskrats. The auction sale is being held on the porch of the community general store in Saint Bernard, Louisiana.Credit: Library of Congress.

Fur buyers figuring out their bid for trapper's muskrats at auction sale in dance hall. Delacroix Island, Louisiana.Credit: Library of Congress.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

This is in effect no more than to bid them first be slaves, and then to take care of their liberty; and when their chains are on, tell them, they may act like freemen. (Second Treatise of Government)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

He had a very fine flock, and, while she was with them, he had been bid more for his wool than any body in the country.

Here you go wrong in your arithmetic, and I must, however reluctantly, bid you farewell.

Yet, if death be in this cup, I bid thee think again, ere thou beholdest me quaff it.

Bid him good evening.

Bid Gloucester think of this, and he will weep.

One of the seamen in Portuguese bid me rise, and asked who I was.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Business

The outcome of this bid is anxiously awaited. (references)

An invitation to bid is attached to the letter. (references)

Bid only on the exact specifications listed in the tender. (references)

Civil Liberties

Germany

Firms owned or managed by or employing Scientologists could bid on these contracts. (references)

China

In January 119 dissidents sent an open letter urging the Government to release jailed colleagues ahead of the Lunar New Year festival, stating that it would help Beijing's bid for the 2008 Olympic Games. (references)

Economic History

Guyana

There was no bid for Linmine. (references)

Human Rights

New Zealand

The case continued during the year as the officer sought to protect his identity from the public; however, in October the officer lost his court bid to maintain his privacy. (references)

Kyrgyz Republic

The initial prosecution of Kulov, considered the most popular opponent of President Akayev in the 2000 elections, began after his unsuccessful bid for a parliamentary seat in March 2000. Despite his acquittal in August 2000, he was brought up on the same charges in the same court in January. (references)

Minorities

Czech Republic

The Human Rights Commission's "Project Tolerance," ceased during the year because several of the companies that had bid on providing services for the project were found to have failed to meet prescribed standards and were disqualified. (references)

Political Economy

ALGERIA

One U.S. group and three European groups bid on the 2000 MW project. (references)

URUGUAY

Bid awards, however, often are drawn out and caught up in controversy. (references)

EGYPT

The law also requires the immediate return of bid bonds and other guarantees once the tender is awarded. (references)

Trade

Saudi Arabia

This is particularly important in connection with Saudi Arabia's bid to accede to the WTO. (references)

China

China has agreed to gradually eliminate distribution restrictions as part of its bid to join the WTO. (references)

Bahrain

The fees are stated in Bahraini Dinars and vary from a nominal amount to five percent of the expected bid. (references)

Travel

Cote D'ivoire

There is a 20,000 housing unit gap for the city of Abidjan every year, and the Ivoirian government has recently launched a bid for three projects of 4,000 housing units each. (references)

Women

Hong Kong

In November 2000, some 200 women, including sex workers, domestic helpers, and members of 12 women's groups, held an antiviolence-against-women rally, demanding greater government protection for women, more assistance to victims, and a special court to handle such cases in a bid to preserve a woman's dignity. (references)

Worker Rights

Lesotho

This situation was made possible by the high levels of unemployment and underemployment, which provide a large pool of surplus unskilled labor that bid down wage rates and threatened job security for workers who made demands for better wages and conditions of work. (references)

Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Expressions using "bid": acceptance of a bid ♦ bid a long farewell ♦ bid a person adieu ♦ bid adieu ♦ bid against ♦ bid against smb. ♦ bid at an auction ♦ bid bond ♦ bid defiance ♦ bid defiance to ♦ bid fair ♦ bid fair to ♦ bid farewell ♦ bid farewell to ♦ bid for ♦ bid for power ♦ bid goodbye ♦ bid guarantee ♦ bid high ♦ Bid hook ♦ bid joy ♦ bid over ♦ bid over smb. ♦ bid peddling ♦ bid price ♦ bid proposal management,tender vetting and customer's needs requirements ♦ bid rate ♦ Bid security ♦ bid smb. farewell ♦ bid smb. godspeed ♦ bid smb. good night ♦ bid smb. joy ♦ bid smb. speed ♦ bid smb. welcome ♦ bid sow ♦ bid the banns ♦ bid unit prices ♦ bid up ♦ bid welcome ♦ buyout bid ♦ do as you are bid ♦ high bid ♦ higher bid ♦ highest bid ♦ make a bid ♦ make a bid for ♦ make a bid for power ♦ opening bid ♦ preemptive bid ♦ raise the bid ♦ straw bid ♦ suicide bid ♦ takeover bid ♦ To bid beads ♦ To bid defiance ♦ To bid defiance to ♦ To bid fair ♦ To bid welcome. Additional references.

Beginning with "bid": bid-ask, bid-defeating, bid-list, bid-lists, bid-offer, bid-only, bid-price, Bid-rent, bid-rigging.

Ending with "bid": al-bid, counter-bid, fee-bid.

Afrikaan

vra (ask, ask for, beg, request), aanbied (advance, give, introduce, make, make an offer of, offer, perform, present, propose, put, suggest, tender). (various references)

Albanian

urdhëroj (appoint, charge, command, decree, dictate, direct, enjoin, give a command, ordain, order, prescribe, require, will), shpreh (breathe, clothe, couch, embody, express, express oneself, extend, formulate, give voice to, import, outspeak, phrase, profess, put, put forward, say, speak, utter), ofroj (contribute, hold forth, hold out, offer, tender). (various references)

Arabic 

‏مناقصة (tender), ‏محاولة (assay, attempt, effort, endeavor, endeavour, essay, fling, go, shot, trial, try, whirl), ‏ناقص (amiss, defective, deficient, deprecatory, faulty, imperfect, inchoate, incomplete, incorrect, insufficient, minus, nude, odd, reducible, revoked, scant, sketchy, truncate, unfinished, wanting), ‏تبشير (preaching), ‏زايد (overbid, trump), ‏عطاء (bestowal, bonus, liberality, tender), ‏عرض (array, breadth, broaden, demo, display, evince, exhibit, expose, exposition, exposure, feature, hang, hang out, hold out, imply, indication, introduction, lineup, mount, offer, offering, overture, pageant, parade, predispose, present, presentation, presenting, produce, proffer, propound, recital, retrace, review, set, set out, setting, show, state, statement, subject, submit, surrey, symptom, trot out, widen, width), ‏أصدر أمرا (ordain), ‏دعوة (bidding, call, calling, counterclaim, invitation, meeting, summons), ‏دعا (allege, beckon, call, claim, contend, enter a plea, feign, fetch, invite, name, plead, profess, purport, recall, set up, summon, term, warn). (various references)

Bulgarian 

казвам (call, convey, observe, put to, say, state, tell, utter), опитване (sampling, tasting, try), нареждам (arrange, collocate, decree, dispose, dress, enjoin, have, lay out, make, ordain, order, pack, pitch, range, seriate, set, set out, set up, settle, sort out, tell, trim), заповядвам (appoint, command, direct, enjoin, instruct, ordain, require, rule the roost, send an order, tell), предложение (counsel, motion, offer, proffer, proposal), предлагане (offering, supply), предлагам (hold forth, offer, present, proffer, propone, propose, put forth, set up, suggest, think of, vote), поканвам (ask, call in, call on, have, invite, offer), покана (bidding, call, dare, engagement, invitation, invitation card, invite), домогване (aspiration), домогвам. (various references)

Chinese 

出價 , 出价 (Bade, Bidden, Bidding, BIDS). (various references)

Czech

pozvat (ask, call, invite), pokus (attempt, effort, experiment, shot, test, touch, trial, try, venture), přikázat (allot, command, order), přihazovat, přát (patronize), oferta (tender), nabízet (tender), nabídnout (make an offer, offer, proffer, propose, volunteer), nabídka (offer, offering, overture, proposal, proposition, quotation, quote, tender), kázat (preach, sermonize), hlásit (announce, call, notify, report). (various references)

Danish

bede (ask, ask for, beet, beg, castrated male sheep, pray, request, wether, wether lamb). (various references)

Dutch

te koop aanbieden (make an offer of, offer), aanbieden (advance, introduce, make an offer of, offer, perform, present, propose, put on the stage, sacrifice, suggest, tender). (various references)

Esperanto

peti (ask, ask for, beg, request), oferti (make an offer of, offer). (various references)

Faeroese

bjóða (advance, invite, make an offer of, offer, propose, suggest), biðja um (ask, ask for, beg, book, order, request), biðja (ask, ask for, beg, pray, request). (various references)

Farsi 

فرمودن , پیشنهادکردن (Advance, Motion, Move, Offer, Proffer, Propose, Purpose, Submit, Suggest), پیشنهاد (Motion, Offer, Plea, Proffer, Proposal, Purpose, Tender), مزایده (Auction, Outcry), قیمت خریدرامعلوم کردن , توپ زدن (Ante, Bluff, Kickoff), خداحافظی کردن , امرکردن (Command, Dictate, Enjoin, Ordain), دعوت کردن (Ask, Invite). (various references)

Finnish

tarjous (offer, offer to pay, proposal, proposition, submission, tender). (various references)

French

prier, demander. (various references)

Frisian

oanbiede (advance, introduce, make an offer of, offer, offer up, present, propose, sacrifice, suggest, tender), fersykje (ask, ask for, beg, request). (various references)

German

Angebot (bargain, estimate, invitation, offer, proffer, proposal, quote, range, submission, supply, tender), bieten (bidden, bidding, give, grant, hold forth, hold out, introduce, lay on, offer, present, provide, show, tender, to offer, to provide), reizen (abet, aggravate, annoy, appeal, bidden, bidding, excite, incite, irritate, irritation, itch, peeve, pique, provoke, rile, rouse, stimulate, stir up, tease, tempt, to irritate, to pique), gebot (bidding, command, commandment, decree, law, offer, order, precept, presentation, proposal, requirement, rule, tender). (various references)

Greek 

προσφορά (offer, offering, offertory, presentation, proffer, quotation, submission, supply, tender), απόπειρα (attempt, crack, smack). (various references)

Hebrew 

�"צעת מחיר (quotation), �"צע (offer, supply). (various references)

Hungarian

árajánlat (quotation, tender), ráígérés, megparancsol (command, order, to bid, to command, to order), meghívás (bidding, invitation, invite), licitálás, licit (bidding, call), kísérlet vmi megszerzésére, erőfeszítés vmi megszerzésére, erőfeszítés vmi elérésére, bemondás (call, crack, gag, quip, quirk, sally), ajánlat (bidding, offer, offering, overture, overtures, proffer, proposal, proposal with no strings attached, proposition, tender), ígér (hold out, promise, to bid, to covenant, to hold out, to promise, to vow). (various references)

Icelandic

biðja um (ask, ask for, beg, request), biðja (ask, ask for, beg, request). (various references)

Indonesian

tawaran (bargain, offering), menawar (bargain, offer), menawan (capture, elegant), meminta (befriend beg). (various references)

Irish

impigh (ask, ask for, beg, request), achainigh (ask, ask for, beg, request). (various references)

Italian

offrire (afford, come up with, expose, extend, make, make an offer of, offer, offer up, present, provide, sacrifice, serve, tender, treat), offerta (bidding, donation, offer, offered, offering, submission, supply, tender), chiedere (ask, ask for, beg, charge, demand, desire, enquire, inquire, move, plead, request, require, seek, to ask, to ask for, wonder). (various references)

Japanese Kanji 

入札 (bidding), 入れ札 (tender), 応札 . (various references)

Japanese Katakana 

おうさつ (beating to death, extermination, massacre, striking dead), にゅうさつ (bidding), いれふ� (tender). (various references)

Korean 

입찰 (Bidding, BIDS). (various references)

Manx

chebbal (bet, betting, bidding, offer, present), cheb (bet, guess, tender). (various references)

Papiamen

suplicá (ask, ask for, beg, request), ofrecé (make an offer of, offer, offer up, sacrifice). (various references)

Pig Latin

idbay

Polish

prosić. (various references)

Portuguese

oferta (bidding, dole, donative, gift, oblatory, offer, offertory, overture, present, presentation manager, proffer, proposal, proposition, quotation, sale, supply, tender), oferecer (dedicate, donate, extend a welcome, give, hold forth, hold over, introduce, make an offer of, offer, perform, ply, proffer, put on the stage, tender). (various references)

Romanian

ordona (arrange, array, command, dictate, direct, enjoin, give an order, methodize, order, put in order, settle, tell, tidy), cere (apply for, ask, ask for, beg, cadge, call for, challenge, charge, claim, command, court, demand, desire, exact, expect, have, implore, involve, necessitate, petition, request, require, require smth. of smb., Sue, urge), dori (be willing to, care for, choose, covet, desire, expect, groan, hunger, like, list, request, sigh for, want, wish), invita (ask, book, call in, call on, invite, solicit, summon, take out, tempt), licitaţie (auction), oferi (accord, afford, avail, exhibit, extend, give, hold forth, offer, proffer, put up, show, stand, stretch, yield), anunţa (advertise, announce, annunciate, bill, blow around, cry, forebode, foretell, give notice, give out, Herald, import, inform, instruct, notify, promise, publish, report, ring, usher in), ofertã (offer, offering, proffer, proposal, proposition, supply, tender), ura (congratulate, hurrah, hurray, huzza, rah, wish), participiu trecut de la bit (bidden), pofti (ask, beg, come, condescend, dare, invite, list, wish), porunci (charge, direct, enjoin, order, rule), proclama (announce, blazon, cry, declare, proclaim, profess, publish, sound), publica (advertise, ask, carry, contribute, give, give forth, issue, post, print, produce, publish), trecut de la bit (bade), oferi un preţ pentru. (various references)

Russian 

предлагать цену, приказывать (command, enjoin, order, require, tell). (various references)

Scottish

� ithn (enjoin). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian

učestvovati na licitaciji, ponuditi (offer, proffer, propose, tender), ponuda (offer, proffer, supply, tender), pokušaj (assay, attempt, essay, stab, try), poželeti (wish, wish for), nuditi (offer, serve), licitirati (auction). (various references)

Spanish

postura (attitude, bidding, carriage, pose, position, posture, stance, stand), ofrecer (bargain, come through with, come up with, extend, feature, give, hand around, hand round, hold, hold out, improve on, introduce, let out, light, make an offer of, offer, offer up, present, present with, proffer, put on the stage, put up, sacrifice, team, tender, throw, throw up, tout, trade in, up, yield). (various references)

Sranan

begi (ask, ask for, beg, pray, prayer, request). (various references)

Swedish

anbud (offer, overture, pollicitation, presentation, proffer, proposal, quotation, submission, tender, tentative offer), bjuda (advance, enjoin, entertain, go, invite, offer, order, propose, say, suggest, treat). (various references)

Tagalog

kahilíngan (ask, ask for, beg, request), hilíng (ask, ask for, beg, request). (various references)

Thai

เชื้อเชิญ (ช่อง 2 โ�"ยทั่วไปจะใช้ bade), พยายามที่จะทำให้สำเร็จ, สั่งให้กระทำ, การให้ราคา, การประมูล (sale), ประมูล ให้ราคา, ความพยายามที่จะทำบางสิ่ง. (various references)

Turkish

fiyat vermek, davet etmek (ask, bade, call, call in, challenge, convoke, court, cry out, invite), deklarasyon, deklare etmek (be declaratory of, overbid), demek (bade, call, observe, say, so, style, tell, term, then), elde etmeye çalışmak (jockey for, make a bid for, try to get, woo), davet (call, calling, challenge, convocation, entertainment, invitation, party, summons, vocation), fiyat teklifi, teklif vermek (tender), girişim (approach, attempt, effort, enterprise, essay, fist, go, initiative, interference, ploy, shot, show, step, trial, undertaking, venture), ihale, para sürme, söylemek (affirm, air, apprise, assert, aver, bade, break, call, confess, couch, deliver, drop, enunciate, give voice to, hazard, impart, name, observe, order, pass, pronounce, remark, report, say, sing, sound, speak, speak of, spill, spit, spit out, state, tell, throw out, utter, voice, word), teşebbüs (approach, attempt, enterprise, fist, venture), teklif (bargain, motion, offer, offering, overture, proffer, proposal, proposition, resolution, suggestion, tender), emretmek (bade, command, decree, dictate, direct, enjoin, ordain, order, prescribe, rule, say the word, tell, will). (various references)

Ukranian 

оголошувати (announce, annunciate, declare, enounce, enunciate, give out, notify, post, preconize, proclaim, pronounce, usher in), надбавка продаж з торгів, запрошувати (ask, book, call in, indite, invite), запрошення (calling, card, engagement, invitation, invite), просити (apply, ask, beg, beseech, crave, desire, obsecrate, request, seek), пропонувати ціну (offer), пропонування ціни (bode). (various references)

Vietnamese 

sự đặt giá (bade, bidden), cố gắng để được (bade, bidden). (various references)

Welsh

peri (beget, cause), gwahodd (invite), erchi (ask, command, demand, pray), cynnig (apply, assay, attempt, motion, move, offer, propose). (various references)

Zulu

-cela (ask, ask for, beg, request). (various references)

iubeo, licentia, liceor, licitum, petere, rogare. (various references)

beodan, biddan. (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.