Meaning

2 senses

  1. That which one is bidden to do; a command.

    I still have lots of paperwork to do at the boss's bidding.

  2. The act of placing a bid.

More definitions
  • a request to be present
  • (bridge) the number of tricks a bridge player is willing to contract to make
  • an authoritative direction or instruction to do something

Examples

14 sentences

  1. Bidding started at three hundred dollars.

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  2. Are you bidding?

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  3. Tom stopped bidding.

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  4. Money cannot be got at bidding.

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  5. He was bidding for popular support.

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Translations

1 languages

Forms

plural: biddings
Singularbidding
Pluralbiddings

regular

Synonyms

5 synonyms
behestC2
Close in meaning
  • a request to be present:summons
  • (bridge) the number of tricks a bridge player is willing to contract to make:bid
  • an authoritative direction or instruction to do something:commandbiddictation

Word family

7 related words
Relatedbid
Derivedbidding boxbidding pricee-biddingmisbiddingnonbiddingunbidding

See also

neighbours in the dictionary
bicycleA1bidB2bidderbidebidetbiennial

Dictionary text adapted from Wiktionary (Wiktionary contributors, CC BY-SA 4.0) and Open English WordNet / Princeton WordNet (CC BY 4.0, WordNet License); shared under CC BY-SA 4.0. Example sentences and recordings are credited where they appear.

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