Bid
71bid — 1) The price or yield at which a buyer indicates that he or she is willing to buy a financial obligation. See: bid price 2) An approach by one company to buy the share capital of another. See: takeover bid …
72bid in — The act of the owner of property put up at an auction sale in taking the property out of the auction by a protective bid, that is, a bid made to prevent a sacrifice of the property at a sale less than its real value; the act of a mortgagee or… …
73bid — [OE] Bid has a complicated history, for it comes from what were originally two completely distinct Old English verbs. The main one was biddan (past tense bæd) ‘ask, demand’, from which we get such modern English usages as ‘I bade him come in’. It …
74bid in — transitive verb : to retain (property offered at auction) by overbidding the highest offer of a bona fide customer * * * bid in (of an owner or his or her agent) in an auction, to overbid the highest offer • • • Main Entry: ↑bid …
75BID — bibliographic information and documentation; brought in dead * * * bid abbr [Latin bis in die] twice a day used in writing prescriptions …
76BID — sigla de Banco Interamericano de Desarrollo Organización internacional fundada en 1959 por 20 gobiernos de América del Norte y del Sur para financiar el desarrollo económico y social en el continente. Los países más grandes que suscribieron su… …
77bid on — phr verb Bid on is used with these nouns as the object: ↑contract …
78bid — n ( es/ u) lingering, hesitation, delay, halt; bid wrecen brought to bay …
79bid up — PHRASAL VERB If someone bids up the value of something, they try to increase it, for example by offering to buy it at a higher price than usual. [V P n (not pron)] ...the British passion for bidding up the price of each other s houses... [V n P]… …
80bid up — raise the ante, raise the bid (in a card game) …
