Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A demand that something be done; a command.
- noun A request to appear; a summons.
- noun Bids considered as a group, as at an auction or in card games.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun Invitation; command; order; a proclamation or notifying.
- noun The act of making an offer at an auction: as, the bidding was lively.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun Command; order; a proclamation or notifying.
- noun The act or process of making bids; an offer; a proposal of a price, as at an auction.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- verb Present participle of
bid .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun a request to be present
- noun an authoritative direction or instruction to do something
- noun (bridge) the number of tricks a bridge player is willing to contract to make
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Examples
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A label bidding war ensued and after the deal was signed and the album recorded...the label chose not to release it.
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They had sparked a label bidding war with the first track they ever wrote, Letting Go, after MySpace bosses heard it and made them their Featured Artist of the Week.
unknown title 2009
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Models get this, writers and actors too, but musicians have the good fortune to occasionally be a part of a label bidding war, the ultimate in processed pre-hype.
Vue Weekly 2009
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What ordinarily happens it is is going to be a sale is that the court will, at the beginning of the process, approve what it calls bidding procedures and those bidding procedures will typically allow the company and some groups of creditors, depending on whether they are in the money or not, to decide what they think is the highest and the best offer.
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What ordinarily happens it is is going to be a sale is that the court will, at the beginning of the process, approve what it calls bidding procedures and those bidding procedures will typically allow the company and some groups of creditors, depending on whether they are in the money or not, to decide what they think is the highest and the best offer.
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Models get this, writers and actors too, but musicians have the good fortune to occasionally be a part of a label bidding war, the ultimate in processed pre-hype.
Vue Weekly 2009
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In Williston, jobs are so plentiful these days that employers engage in bidding wars for workers.
Democrats Face Skeptics in Rural Areas Douglas Belkin 2010
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Interest from global food companies in bidding for United Biscuits has been muted.
Corporate Watch 2010
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Odd. In June 2008, Fox Sports Chairman David Hill said Fox was "absolutely, keenly interested" in bidding and, with the 2014 Games in Russia, he added: "I'm a huge fan of caviar — on Russian blintzes; it's fabulous."
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Interest from the world's major food companies in bidding for United Biscuits has been muted.
China's Bright Food Considers Buying U.K.'s United Biscuits Marietta Cauchi 2010
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