Noun: bid
Sample Sentences
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His bid was $35,000.
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The company tendered a bid for a lucrative transport contract.
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Nice bid!
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Their efforts represented a sincere bid for success.
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She put in her bid for the presidency.
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He put in his bid for office.
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Then, as the Sunderland fans' cheers bellowed around the stadium, United's title bid was over when it became apparent City had pinched a last-gasp winner to seal their first title in 44 years. [2012 May 13, Alistair Magowan, “Sunderland 0-1 Man Utd”, in BBC Sport:]
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[Running,] Doyle had passed up a dozen chances to go underground. He was swinging east again making another bid for Arcade. [1967 May, William F. Nolan, George Clayton Johnson, Logan's Run, Bantam Books, published 1976, →ISBN, page 16:]
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I can’t stand this new bid I’m on, even if the mileage is better.
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So we ‘lawyered up’. That’s how they say it in the bucket, son, where I did an eight-hour bid. [2007, Psych (TV series)]
Nouns inflected like bid
soldier's woundwort,
Nicosian,
whopper,
greypate,
tactile sign language,
chronotrope,
Rosie Lee,
dissentient,
photoinactivator,
sulphonediimine,
coastal waterfall,
residuary devise,
bituminization,
nitrosonaphthol,
smṛiti,
geosphere,
backscreen,
mensuralist,
flocculate,
flocculant, etc. (List truncated at 20 nouns)
Etymology
From Middle English beden, from Old English bēodan (“to offer, announce”), from Proto-Germanic *beudaną (“to offer”), from Proto-Indo-European *bʰewdʰ- (“be awake, aware”). Conflated with Old English biddan (“to ask, demand”) (see Etymology 1 above). Compare Low German bieden, beden, Dutch bieden, German bieten, Danish byde, Norwegian Bokmål by. More at bede. See: Norwegian Bokmål Nouns '
by'.
Verbs referencing "bid"
Ancient Greek Nouns
πόθος.