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What (who) is BID - definition
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Bid; BID (disambiguation); Bid (disambiguation); B.I.D
BID
Banco Interamericano de Desarrollo
bid
I. ATTEMPTING OR OFFERING
(bids, bidding)
Frequency: The word is one of the 1500 most common words in English.
Note: The form 'bid' is used in the present tense and is the past tense and past participle.
1.
A bid for something or a bid to do something is an attempt to obtain it or do it. (JOURNALISM)
...Sydney's successful bid for the 2000 Olympic Games...
The Government has already closed down two newspapers in a bid to silence its critics.
= attempt
N-COUNT: N for n, N to-inf
2.
A bid is an offer to pay a particular amount of money for something that is being sold.
Hanson made an agreed takeover bid of ?351 million.
N-COUNT
3.
If you bid for something or bid to do something, you try to obtain it or do it.
Singapore Airlines is rumoured to be bidding for a management contract to run both airports...
I don't think she is bidding to be Prime Minister again.
VERB: V for n, V to-inf
4.
If you bid for something that is being sold, you offer to pay a particular amount of money for it.
She decided to bid for a Georgian dressing table...
The bank announced its intention to bid...
He certainly wasn't going to bid $18 billion for this company.
VERB: V for n, V, V n
• bidding
The bidding starts at ?2 million.
N-UNCOUNT
II. SAYING SOMETHING
(bids, bidding, bade, bidden)
Note: American English sometimes uses the form 'bid' for the past tense.
If you bid someone farewell, you say goodbye to them. If you bid them goodnight, you say goodnight to them. (FORMAL)
She bade farewell to her son...
I bade her goodnight.
= wish
VERB: V n to n, V n n
see also bidding
bid
I
n.
bidding of an amount
1) to enter, file, make, put in, submit a bid
2) to call for, invite bids
3) to raise one's bid
4) to consider, entertain bids
5) to recall a bid
6) an opening; sealed bid
7) the highest bid
8) a bid for, on (she made a bid on the painting)
attempt
9) to make a bid
10) a desperate bid
11) a bid for (she made a bid for the nomination)
12) a bid to + inf. (he made a bid to regain his former influence)
II
v.
1) (D; tr.) to bid for (she bid twenty pounds for the vase)
2) (esp. AE) (D; intr.) to bid on (to bid on a contract)
III
v.
1) (formal) (A) she bade farewell to them; or: she bade them farewell
2) (obsol.) (H) to bid smb. to do smt.
3) (obsol.) (I) to bid smb. do smt.
Examples of use of BID
1. Nice reportedly also bid for Witness – it just bid less, about $25 per share.
2. Sochi Bid Committee A promotional photo of Sochi children distributed by the bid committee.
3. Shareholders said General Atlantic‘s bid of $240m was ahead of Blackstone and Battery‘s $200m bid.
4. Its closest competitor, Monab, bid $1.45 billion, while Bauholding Strabag bid $2 billion.
5. Danya Cebus‘ bid was NIS 50 million less than the other bid submitted.