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bid price

bid price

1 6.2
The amount a buyer is willing to pay for a stock or other investment
  • noun
  • Specialized
translation icon : precio de oferta
  • That process will quickly reveal the second type of problem: recent initial bid prices for new plants are shockingly high.
  • bid price for each generator
  • marginal bid price
  • market bid price

Examples

  • Before placing a trade, she always checked the latest bid price for the asset.

  • Our results also suggest that the size and number of generating firms in the industry have a significant interaction effect with the availability of bid price and market price information.

    Academic text (2000)
  • Under this method, market price is the current bid price on the inventory date for the volume typically sold by or purchased from the farmer.

    Academic text (2018)
  • In Table 3, the sales weighted average bid price for each generator has been calculated.

    Academic text (2000)
  • If the evaluation process was based on bid price per barrel alone, these two polymers would not have been recognized as the best.

    Academic text (1998)
  • If the current bid price is not available, the best available evidence of market value in local markets may be used E.T. Bameit, 8 BTA.

    Academic text (2018)
  • The difference in bid prices between these two hours is obviously zero in the two Daily simulations because there is only a single daily bid price.

    Academic text (2000)
  • Some folks look at the brand, the low mileage, and a low eBay bid price, and start making the strangest of assumptions.

    Blog text (7)
  • The contractor wishes to capture as much profit as possible from the bid price and has the incentive to install the least expensive components he can find, regardless of how inefficiently they use energy or water.

    Academic text (1999)
  • The bid price included the two tunnels, inlet, outlet, and junction structures, slurry cutoff walls, cut-and-cover pipeline, pavement, and other related facilities.

    Academic text (1996)

Synonyms

bid
vsbid price
232 2.7

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

is used in financial markets to show how much a buyer is willing to pay
offer price
vsbid price
3.5

The price a buyer says they will pay for something like a house

is specific to financial markets and applies to securities and assets

Antonyms

20 3.4

The amount a seller wants for something that is for sale

Surface Forms

bid price singular
bid prices plural

Morphology

bid + price

The meaning 'the price at which a buyer is willing to purchase' is directly derivable from combining 'bid' (an offered amount) and 'price' (the money required to buy); the noun–noun composition plainly indicates the price associated with a bid. Although it is a finance term, the compositional structure is regular and cross-linguistically common, so a B1 learner who knows both constituents can infer the MWE's meaning.

Etymology

The term bid price comes from auctions where people shout a bid, meaning an 'offer' for an item, and the price is the money they will pay. So the bid price today means the amount a buyer is willing to pay for something.