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💰 Auction participant 🃏 Card game player
bidder

bidder

2 2.8
A person who says how many tricks they will win in a card game
  • noun
  • /ˈbɪdər/
  • Jargon
: ofertador
  • The results obtained suggest that auction bidders were the subject of a 'winner's curse' and that the market mechanism had a significant effect on sale prices.
  • the lowest bidder
  • the highest bidder

Examples

  • Service contracts do not go to the lowest bidder in NYS.

    Blog text (23)

  • In the charity auction, many bidders eagerly participated, hoping to win unique items.

  • If demand is higher elsewhere and prices are higher, then the supply will go to higher bidders.

    Blog text (28)

  • You would have to be a good bidder and also be good at negotiating and bargaining for good deals.

    Blog text (17)

  • His reputation as a shrewd and dependable bidder began to spread.

    Fiction book (1994)

  • The bidders' hands fly up, flashing their cards; the dollars pursue me up the aisle.

    Fiction book (1996)

  • That exclusion needlessly harms the public and needlessly harms potential bidders.

    Blog text (28)

  • During the poker game, each bidder raised the stakes, trying to outdo each other.

  • As the auction proceeded, the veteran bidder confidently announced his offers.

Synonyms

tenderer
vsbidder
  • Jargon
1 7.2

A company that makes a formal written offer to do work or supply goods

is about calling out a play in a card game rather than formal commercial proposals
offeror
vsbidder
  • Formal
1 7.8

A person who suggests conditions for a deal

is specific to announcing a competitive play in card games rather than legal offers
offerer
vsbidder
1 4.9

A person who suggests something for someone to accept or refuse

is used when someone announces a competitive bid during a card game

Surface Forms

bidder singular
bidders plural

Morphology

bidder = bid (transparent) = bid + er

Formed by the productive agentive suffix '-er' added to the verb 'bid'; meaning 'one who bids' is straightforward for learners.

Etymology

Bidder comes from the verb bid, from an old English word meaning 'to ask' or 'to command', plus the ending -er meaning 'one who'. In card games you often 'announce' what you will try to win, so a bidder is 'one who makes or says a bid'.