Bidding
noun
The act of making a bid in a competition or auction.
She entered the bidding but quickly dropped out when the price rose too high.
Often appears as...
- start the bidding
- enter the bidding
noun
Instructions that someone gives you about what you must do.
They went off to do his bidding.
Often appears as...
- do someone's bidding
- at one's bidding
noun
An attempt to win something or defeat someone.
The company's $400 million bidding for the contract failed.
Often appears as...
- a bidding for a contract
- a bidding for a project
noun
The act of making a bid in a competition or auction.
She entered the bidding but quickly dropped out when the price rose too high.
Often appears as...
- start the bidding
- enter the bidding
noun
Instructions that someone gives you about what you must do.
They went off to do his bidding.
Often appears as...
- do someone's bidding
- at one's bidding
noun
An attempt to win something or defeat someone.
The company's $400 million bidding for the contract failed.
Often appears as...
- a bidding for a contract
- a bidding for a project
Definition 1 of 3
Pro Tip 1/3Auction Context
Use 'bidding' to refer to the competitive process of offering prices at auctions.
The art collector was passionate about bidding at the antique auction.
Pro Tip 2/3Price War
'Bidding' can imply a contest where parties try to outdo each other financially.
Two investors were bidding fiercely for the old manor.
Pro Tip 3/3Metaphoric Use
Metaphorically, 'bidding' can describe any competitive situation, not just auctions.
The debate team entered the bidding with some strong arguments.
Pro Tip 1/3Auction Context
Use 'bidding' to refer to the competitive process of offering prices at auctions.
The art collector was passionate about bidding at the antique auction.
Pro Tip 2/3Price War
'Bidding' can imply a contest where parties try to outdo each other financially.
Two investors were bidding fiercely for the old manor.
Pro Tip 3/3Metaphoric Use
Metaphorically, 'bidding' can describe any competitive situation, not just auctions.
The debate team entered the bidding with some strong arguments.
Pro Tip 1/3Auction Context
Use 'bidding' to refer to the competitive process of offering prices at auctions.
The art collector was passionate about bidding at the antique auction.
Pro Tip 2/3Price War
'Bidding' can imply a contest where parties try to outdo each other financially.
Two investors were bidding fiercely for the old manor.
Pro Tip 3/3Metaphoric Use
Metaphorically, 'bidding' can describe any competitive situation, not just auctions.
The debate team entered the bidding with some strong arguments.
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How to decarbonize the...
They're really important. Because they set up, I would call it, a race to the top instead of a race to the bottom. They set up a dynamic where people were sort of bidding to do better and better. They created transparency in how people are doing in terms of their carbon emissions. And there are some countries that take these commitments very seriously,
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The dark history of...
and turn it into a soulless zombi that will perform their bidding. Historically, these zombis were said to be put to work as laborers who needed neither food nor rest and would enrich their captor’s fortune. In other words, zombification seemed to represent the horrors of enslavement
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How we must respond to...
even in this situation -- you know, there's still this notion of bidding, and not really knowing who has the unique capabilities of doing things, and so, an organization that's working on this all the time, lots of new vaccines, can step in and be helpful. And it's really amazing.
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How love can help repair...
mermaid through the song poor unfortunate souls so if you study that song poor unfortunate souls you'll discover is actually a textbook example of how people villains tend to exploit the insecurities of folks in order to sort of get them to do their bidding that's what the song
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In search of Toscanini’s...
other other people touch those pants and in various ways and I really felt that I had to have them and it was important that I have them but I was sure I wouldn't get them in the bidding was fierce and it was really really tense but there is a good thing that happens
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How to Find Joy in...
Thanks largely to fossil fuel executives and the PR firms and politicians doing their bidding. We need to eliminate greenhouse gas emissions from electricity, transportation, agriculture, industry and buildings. We need to protect and restore ecosystems.
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How Thor got his hammer...
So Loki rushed to their realm, deep within the mountains of the earth. Even before he arrived, the wily Loki was already scheming how he would get the dwarves to do his bidding. He decided that his best bet was to pit two families against each other.
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Baby Macaque Bullied PIPE...
for gremlin to start doing her bidding she clearly wants gremlin to come with her perhaps to do some grooming gremlins mum sitting behind her can't intervene kinder carries a lot of political clout in the truth Bremen was deal with this herself
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The 24/7 Wild Collection...
for gremlin to start doing her bidding she clearly wants gremlin to come with her perhaps to do some grooming gremlins mum sitting behind her can't intervene kinder carries a lot of political clout in the truth Bremen was deal with this herself
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Seal Sends Text Messages...
an audience of well-wishers to see her off she's leaving behind her home of four months for a life at sea for Jenny it's the moment of truth bidding farewell to the seals she's
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How to decarbonize the...
They're really important. Because they set up, I would call it, a race to the top instead of a race to the bottom. They set up a dynamic where people were sort of bidding to do better and better. They created transparency in how people are doing in terms of their carbon emissions. And there are some countries that take these commitments very seriously,
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The dark history of...
and turn it into a soulless zombi that will perform their bidding. Historically, these zombis were said to be put to work as laborers who needed neither food nor rest and would enrich their captor’s fortune. In other words, zombification seemed to represent the horrors of enslavement
Video examples
How we must respond to...
even in this situation -- you know, there's still this notion of bidding, and not really knowing who has the unique capabilities of doing things, and so, an organization that's working on this all the time, lots of new vaccines, can step in and be helpful. And it's really amazing.
Video examples
How love can help repair...
mermaid through the song poor unfortunate souls so if you study that song poor unfortunate souls you'll discover is actually a textbook example of how people villains tend to exploit the insecurities of folks in order to sort of get them to do their bidding that's what the song
Video examples
In search of Toscanini’s...
other other people touch those pants and in various ways and I really felt that I had to have them and it was important that I have them but I was sure I wouldn't get them in the bidding was fierce and it was really really tense but there is a good thing that happens
Video examples
How to Find Joy in...
Thanks largely to fossil fuel executives and the PR firms and politicians doing their bidding. We need to eliminate greenhouse gas emissions from electricity, transportation, agriculture, industry and buildings. We need to protect and restore ecosystems.
Video examples
How Thor got his hammer...
So Loki rushed to their realm, deep within the mountains of the earth. Even before he arrived, the wily Loki was already scheming how he would get the dwarves to do his bidding. He decided that his best bet was to pit two families against each other.
Video examples
Baby Macaque Bullied PIPE...
for gremlin to start doing her bidding she clearly wants gremlin to come with her perhaps to do some grooming gremlins mum sitting behind her can't intervene kinder carries a lot of political clout in the truth Bremen was deal with this herself
Video examples
The 24/7 Wild Collection...
for gremlin to start doing her bidding she clearly wants gremlin to come with her perhaps to do some grooming gremlins mum sitting behind her can't intervene kinder carries a lot of political clout in the truth Bremen was deal with this herself
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Seal Sends Text Messages...
an audience of well-wishers to see her off she's leaving behind her home of four months for a life at sea for Jenny it's the moment of truth bidding farewell to the seals she's
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Emily Dickinson
American Poet
I am growing handsome very fast indeed! I expect I shall be the belle of Amherst when I reach my 17th year. I don't doubt that I shall have perfect crowds of admirers at that age. Then how I shall delight to make them await my bidding, and with what delight shall I witness their suspense while I make my final decision.
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Jane Green
English Author
I left my job as a feature writer on a newspaper to write a book, then sent it off to a number of agents thinking they would all reject me. Within a week, most had come back to say they loved what they had read, which then led to a bidding war for my first two novels.
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J. K. Rowling
English Author
The moment I said I'd finished a book, I knew what would happen. There would be a bidding war, and I would end up with someone who'd got the fattest wallet, who had bought it because I'd written Harry Potter. That would have been why.
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Jerry Saltz
American Critic
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.
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Sun Tzu
Chinese Philosopher
If fighting is sure to result in victory, than you must fight, even though the ruler forbid it; if fighting will not result in victory, then you must not fight even at the ruler's bidding.
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Gail Collins
American Journalist
I'm sort of suspicious of most economic development projects, but the ones that encourage taxpayer-funded relocation bidding wars should be declared unconstitutional.
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Herodotus
Greek Historian
If someone were to put a proposition before men bidding them choose, after examination, the best customs in the world, each nation would certainly select its own.
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Jaime Harrison
American Politician
State governments should not have to compete in bidding contests against each other in order to get the necessary supplies to protect and help their citizens.
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George Lucas
American Director
I am simply trying to struggle through life; trying to do God's bidding.
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Peter Ueberroth
American Businessman
The international game has changed for bidding cities.
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Emily Dickinson
American Poet
I am growing handsome very fast indeed! I expect I shall be the belle of Amherst when I reach my 17th year. I don't doubt that I shall have perfect crowds of admirers at that age. Then how I shall delight to make them await my bidding, and with what delight shall I witness their suspense while I make my final decision.
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Jane Green
English Author
I left my job as a feature writer on a newspaper to write a book, then sent it off to a number of agents thinking they would all reject me. Within a week, most had come back to say they loved what they had read, which then led to a bidding war for my first two novels.
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J. K. Rowling
English Author
The moment I said I'd finished a book, I knew what would happen. There would be a bidding war, and I would end up with someone who'd got the fattest wallet, who had bought it because I'd written Harry Potter. That would have been why.
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Jerry Saltz
American Critic
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.
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Sun Tzu
Chinese Philosopher
If fighting is sure to result in victory, than you must fight, even though the ruler forbid it; if fighting will not result in victory, then you must not fight even at the ruler's bidding.
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Gail Collins
American Journalist
I'm sort of suspicious of most economic development projects, but the ones that encourage taxpayer-funded relocation bidding wars should be declared unconstitutional.
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Herodotus
Greek Historian
If someone were to put a proposition before men bidding them choose, after examination, the best customs in the world, each nation would certainly select its own.
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Jaime Harrison
American Politician
State governments should not have to compete in bidding contests against each other in order to get the necessary supplies to protect and help their citizens.
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George Lucas
American Director
I am simply trying to struggle through life; trying to do God's bidding.
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Peter Ueberroth
American Businessman
The international game has changed for bidding cities.
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