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bidding

bidding

4 2.7
Offering a price to buy something, for example at an auction
  • noun
  • /ˈbɪdɪŋ/
  • Texting
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  • The auction was exciting, and the bidding started at just $100.
  • Bidding starts
  • Bidding begins
  • Bidding wars

Instead, do as the pros do and get bids based on the red flags.

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Examples

  • Bidding for budgets and resources has increasingly been part of an OH professional's skill base (Thornbury and Farnley, 2007).

    Academic text (2014)
  • OK, so now suppose that people's bidding strategy is pretty much what they reported.

  • No, The thing is, like we had, we had the small sort of bidding war on this next project that we want to work on.

  • So once I got the bidding war settled, I got a huge advance.

  • So in spite of the lack of interest of my agent, there was a bidding war over it.

  • Bidding starts at $30 million.

  • Bidding will start at $1,000.

    Fiction book (1997)
  • Bidding begins at a mere 10 million.

    Fiction book (1997)
  • We all submit our bids, and then I find out that I've won the bidding.

  • Bidding wars are routine.

    Blog text (8)

Synonyms

bid
vsbidding
232 2.7

An offer of money to buy something, often at an auction

refers to the ongoing process of making offers rather than a single offer
bidding contest
vsbidding
3.7

A competition where people or companies offer higher prices to win something like at an auction

is the general process of making offers rather than a specific competition

Compounds

A competition where people or companies offer higher prices to win something like at an auction

How High

asking price
20 3.4
bidding
  • Texting
4 2.7
bid
232 2.7

Surface Forms

bidding singular
biddings plural

Morphology

bidding = bid (transparent) = bid + ing

A straightforward nominalization of the common verb 'to bid' meaning to offer a price; learners who know 'bid' should readily understand 'bidding' as the act of making bids.

Etymology

The word bidding comes from the verb bid meaning 'to offer' or 'to ask a price', like when people call out amounts at an auction. So 'bidding' is the act of making offers to buy something.