to bid

Examples

• All

• When the storms magnify and the ground shakes with thunder, she even bids three hearts from the closet floor.

  Academic text (1991)

• I bid four.

  Baby Boy (2001)

• Everybody bid down, watch the card, watch the queen.

  The Flim-Flam Man (1967)

• And we bid our last farewell.

  Reckless (1984)

• You bid a grand slam on that hand?

  Bud Abbott and Lou Costello Meet the Killer, Boris Karloff (1949)

• Alicia never forgot a card, could bid baby slams, and make them all the time.

  Fiction book (1992)

• I must respectfully urge you to bid his Excellency good night.

  Under Capricorn (1949)

• Accordingly, despite Laura's last request, we have shown so little inclination to "be kind" in our assessment of an episode whose only genuine reality in our eyes is the unacknowledged one of sexual abuse, that better known than the request itself now is the mockery to which we routinely treat it in bidding farewell to our tricks.

  Academic text (1997)

• Macbeth says to this dagger of his guilty mind, "Thou marshall'st me the way that I was going" (43), as the vision of the dagger bids Macbeth to follow as it leads to Duncan's bed.

  Academic text (1997)

• In the bridge tournament, I decided to bid three hearts, hoping to secure the contract.

Synonyms

C

to call

vsto bid

• Jargon

99 4.2

To name a card, suit, or action during a card game

is a formal statement of intent or offer about suit or value

D

to declare

vsto bid

• Jargon

9 7.4

To name the trump suit or say no-trump in a card game

is a broader statement of intent about suit or value, not only final

Phrasal Verbs

B

to bid for

49 2.9

Offer money for something, often at an auction

Compounds

T

takeover bid

• Jargon

4 4.2

An offer to buy enough shares in a company to gain control

B

bid price

• Specialized

1 6.2

The amount a buyer is willing to pay for a stock or other investment

B

buyout bid

• Specialized

1 5.9

An offer to buy all the shares a person or company owns in a business

A

any-and-all bid

• Specialized

9.3

An offer to buy all shares that current shareholders want to sell

P

preemptive bid

• Jargon

7.9

An early high bid in bridge to stop opponents from bidding

P

preemptive bid

• Jargon

7.3

An early strong offer to buy something made to stop other bidders

T

two-tier bid

• Specialized

8.1

An offer to buy shares that pays more for control shares and less for others

How Low

to sandbag

• Informal

3 7.5

to underbid

• Jargon

6.7

to bid

3 5.1

Surface Forms

Etymology