bid
IPA: bˈɪd
Root Word: BID
noun
- An offer at an auction, or to carry out a piece of work.
- (ultimate frisbee) A (failed) attempt to receive or intercept a pass.
- An attempt, effort, or pursuit (of a goal).
- (trucking) A particular route that a driver regularly takes from their domicile.
- (prison slang) A prison sentence.
verb
- (transitive) To issue a command; to tell.
- (transitive) To invite; to summon.
- (transitive) To utter a greeting or salutation.
- (intransitive) To make an offer to pay or accept a certain price.
- (transitive) To offer as a price.
- (intransitive) To make an attempt.
- (transitive, intransitive, card games) To announce (one's goal), before starting play.
- (obsolete) To proclaim (a bede, prayer); to pray.
- (transitive, intransitive, trucking) To take a particular route regularly.
adverb
- (pharmacology) twice a day, two times per day
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Examples of "bid" in Sentences
- I tweaked the Kurt Welter article a bid.
- The bidding that determines the trump suit.
- The unusual bid caught the attention of the press.
- The fee is unrelated to the bidding process itself.
- The lead starts with the player who won the bidding.
- The final bidding for the radio stations was spirited.
- Campfield again won the bid for the completion of the project.
- The player to the dealer's left initiates the bidding process.
- Players who underbid are deducted points in the amount of the bid.
- Biederman was in the vanguard of the BID movement in the United States.
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