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Definitions: Bidder |
BidderNoun1. Someone who makes an offer. 2. Someone who makes a bid at cards. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "bidder" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1777. (references) |
| Domain | Definitions |
Law | The company, individual or group of individuals making an offer to control another company. Source: European Union. (references) |
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| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Deceiver | Liar; (lie; ); story-teller, perjurer, false witness, menteur a triple etage, Scapin; bunko steerer, carpetbagger, capper, faker, fraud, four flusher, horse coper, ringer, spieler, straw bidder. |
Petitioner | Noun: petitioner, solicitor, applicant; suppliant, supplicant; suitor, candidate, claimant, postulant, aspirant, competitor, bidder; place hunter, pot hunter; prizer; seeker. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
Crosswords: Bidder |
| English words defined with "bidder": auction, auction sale ♦ contract, contract bridge ♦ Licitation ♦ on the head ♦ pre-emptor ♦ Straw bid ♦ To knock down, To knock in the head, To knock off ♦ underbid ♦ vendue. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "bidder": anti takeover measure ♦ Bid Bond ♦ Calculators, COMMISSION AGENT, LIVESTOCK, CONTRACT ADMINISTRATOR ♦ LANDSCAPE CONTRACTOR ♦ RFP ♦ TICKET MARKER. (references) |
| Non-English Usage: "Bidder" is also a word in the following language with the English translation in parentheses. Indonesian (bidder). |
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Screenplays | They put his dick in an ornate jar and gave it to his priest; don't ask me why. Over the years, Napoleon's dick was sold and sold again to the highest bidder. To this day, at least three people claim to own Napoleon's dick. (Oz; writing credit: Pavel Srut) | |
Lyrics | Thirty grand, to the highest bidder but Chris Rock ("Perfect Gentleman"; performing artist: Wyclef Jean) | |
Movie/TV Titles | The Highest Bidder (1921) To the Highest Bidder (1918) | |
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 | Figure 53. A bottom float for studying currents in closed basins of small extent used by the Copenhagen Hydrographic Laboratory. Left:float. Right: message. This float was first conceived by George P. Bidder with the aid of the Marine Biological Association of Plymouth, U. K., and first used from the HUXLEY in 1904 when 390 were launched in the North Sea.Credit: Sailing for Science - the NOAA Fleet Then and Now. |  | Many parents and young people from the school and nearby communities attend the pie and box supper, given by the school to raise money for additional repairs and supplies. Each box or pie is auctioned off to the highest bidder, sometimes bringing a good d.Credit: Library of Congress. |
 | Many parents and young people from the school and nearby communities attend the pie and box supper, given by the school to raise money for additional repairs and supplies. Each box or pie is auctioned off to the highest bidder, sometimes bringing a good d.Credit: Library of Congress. |  | Many parents and young people from the school and nearby communities attend the pie and box supper, given by the school to raise money for additional repairs and supplies. Each box or pie is auctioned off to the highest bidder, sometimes bringing a good d.Credit: Library of Congress. |
 | Many parents and young people from the school and nearby communities attend the pie and box supper, given by the school to raise money for additional repairs and supplies. Each box or pie is auctioned off to the highest bidder, sometimes bringing a good d.Credit: Library of Congress. | ||
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| Author | Quotation |
George Washington | Few men have virtue to withstand the highest bidder. |
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| Subject | Topic | Quote |
Business | The committee selects the winning bidder. (references) | |
The contracts are usually awarded to the lowest bidder. (references) | ||
This has put an even greater burden on the bidder early in the decision cycle. (references) | ||
Civil Liberties | South Africa | This role came under scrutiny during the extended bidding process for the third cellular license in the country after unsuccessful bidders for the cellular license alleged that the regulator unfairly recommended one bidder for the contract; they sued to have the decision reviewed. (references) |
Economic History | Tanzania | The onus is on the preferred bidder to identify its local partners. (references) |
Japan | Again, the contract is awarded to the bidder with the best price advantage. (references) | |
Political Economy | SOUTH AFRICA | A contract will be awarded to the bidder with the highest number of points, provided the bidder is within a certain range of the lowest acceptable bid price. (references) |
Travel | Nicaragua | The reform contemplated, among other things, a change in the privatization process from an open bidding process to a public auction, in which 40 percent of ENITEL's outstanding shares will be sold to the bidder with the best offer. (references) |
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits. | ||
| "Bidder" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 99.75% of the time. "Bidder" is used about 408 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Noun (singular) | 99.75% | 407 | 13,834 |
| Noun (proper) | 0.25% | 1 | 339,140 |
| Total | 100.00% | 408 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
Expressions using "bidder": straw bidder ♦ successful bidder. Additional references. | |
| Hypenated Usage | |
Ending with "bidder": under-bidder. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Language | Translations for "bidder"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Albanian | ofrues. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Arabic | سهل الإنقياد (amenable, amenableness, docile, docility, frail), العارض ثمنا, الآمر (commandant, commander). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Bulgarian | лице което наддава на търг. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Chinese | 投 者. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Czech | nabízející, dražitel (auctioneer). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Danish | tilbudsgiver (applicant, tenderer). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Dutch | bieder. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Finnish | tarjo-oja. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
French | soumissionnaire, offrant, entreprise qui fait l'offre, enchérisseur. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
German | Bieter (tenderer). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Greek | προσφέρων (tenderer). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hungarian | vevő (buyer, customer, demander, procurer, purchaser), ráígérő, licitáló, ajánlattevő, árverező. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Indonesian | bidder, penawar. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Italian | offerente (bidders, offerer, tenderer), impresa che presenta l'offerta. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Japanese Kanji | 入札者 . (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Japanese Katakana | にゅうさつしゃ. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Korean | 입찰자. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Manx | chebbeyder (offerer, profferer, tenderer). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | idderbay licitante, autor da oferta. (various references) persoanã care liciteazã, ofertant (bidding, offerer, offering), licitant (auctioneer). (various references) покупатель (buyer, client, customer, purchaser, shopper, vendee). (various references) kupac (buyer, customer, purchaser, shopper). (various references) oferente (offerer), licitador (tenderer), declarante (declarant, declared by). (various references) köpare i en auktion. (various references) ผู้ให้ราคา. (various references) teklifçi, teklif veren kimse. (various references) той, що пропону", покупець (buyer, customer, purchaser, shopper). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "bidder": bidders. (additional references) | |
Words ending with "bidder": forbidder, overbidder, underbidder. (additional references) | |
Words containing "bidder": forbidders, overbidders, underbidders. (additional references) | |
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"Bidder" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Badda, Baddel, badder, Badoer, Beddard, Bedern, Bidart, bidde, bidded, biddery, biddor, bidel, bider, bidex, bidir, bilder, bodda, Bodedern, budda, Buddery, Buder, idder. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "bidder" (pronounced bi"der) |
| 3 | -i" d er | consider, Kidder, reconsider, Ridder, widder. |
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Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
Direct Anagrams: bedrid, birded. | |
| Words within the letters "b-d-d-e-i-r" | |
-1 letter: bided, bider, bride, dried, rebid, redid. | |
-2 letters: bide, bier, bird, bred, brie, died, dire, drib, ired, redd, ride. | |
-3 letters: bed, bid, deb, dib, did, die, ire, reb, red, rei, rib, rid. | |
-4 letters: be, bi, de, ed, er, id, re. | |
| Words containing the letters "b-d-d-e-i-r" | |
+1 letter: bidders, birdied, braided, bridged, bridled, brinded, debride, dribbed, redbird. | |
+2 letters: abridged, begirded, birdseed, brandied, brigaded, brindled, debrided, debrides, disrobed, dribbled, rebidden, rebodied, redbirds, reedbird, underbid. | |
+3 letters: bedirtied, bedridden, begirdled, birdlimed, birdseeds, broadside, broidered, cedarbird, debriding, debriefed, debruised, deorbited, described, disbarred, disburden, disbursed, disturbed, forbidden, forbidder, rebidding, rebuilded, redbaited, reedbirds, sideboard, unbraided, unbridged, unbridled, underbids, upbraided. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)42 69 64 64 65 72 |
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Morse Code (1836) (references)-... .. -.. -.. . .-. |
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01000010 01101001 01100100 01100100 01100101 01110010 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)B i d d e r |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0042 0069 0064 0064 0065 0072 |
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Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)367570707184 |
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