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bidding

[ bid-ing ]

noun

  1. command; summons; invitation:

    I went there at his bidding.

  2. bids bid collectively, or a period during which bids bid are made or received:

    The bidding began furiously.

  3. a bid. bide.


bidding

/ ˈbɪdɪŋ /

noun

  1. an order; command (often in the phrases do or follow the bidding of , at someone's bidding )
  2. an invitation; summons
  3. the act of making bids, as at an auction or in bridge
  4. bridge a group of bids considered collectively, esp those made on a particular deal
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012


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Word History and Origins

Origin of bidding1

Middle English word dating back to 1125–75; bid 1, -ing 1
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Idioms and Phrases

Idioms
  1. do someone's bidding, to submit to someone's orders; perform services for someone:

    After he was promoted to vice president at the bank, he expected everyone around him to do his bidding.

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Example Sentences

According to Deadline, Apple acquired the film "following a competitive bidding war" involving four bidders, including multiple studios and another streaming company.

Target impression share bidding will optimize your bids in order to maximize your ad impressions on the SERPs.

If advertisers’ campaigns do not have a set automated strategy currently set up, they will lose access to manual bidding this spring.

The first executive said Taboola has come to the publisher with offerings that “start to play on the more traditional ad banner types of inventory” usually associated with header bidding.

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In such a scenario, would Apple open up a bidding war for the opportunity, or would it do something fairly shocking… create its own search engine.

So, whose bidding do we think these candidates are going to do?

In a neat line, his agent, beginning a bidding war, promised: “Michiko Kakutani will flip for this.”

McDonnell was poised to be the beneficiary of a bidding war among the biggest law firms.

He was bidding a final farewell to the 9/11 nightmare and the odyssey to kill Osama bin Laden.

Unfortunately for the wannabe-thugs at 1325 G St., the friendly officers of the DCPD were not about to do their bidding.

Bidding a young bank manager take charge of the detachment, Frank led the newcomer rapidly to headquarters.

Gordon Wright stood there, looking at him—with a gaze which Bernard returned for a moment before bidding him to come in.

Before bidding the men go that way, he had satisfied himself that there was a key on the outside of the door.

In the street the men of his escort sat their horses, having mounted at his bidding in readiness for the journey.

But this small fear was immediately dissipated when she ran in after bidding Amy good-night.

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Definitions and idiom definitions from Dictionary.com Unabridged, based on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2023

Idioms from The American Heritage® Idioms Dictionary copyright © 2002, 2001, 1995 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company.

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