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bid·ding

   [bid-ing]
noun
1.
command; summons; invitation: I went there at his bidding.
2.
bids collectively, or a period during which bids are made or received: The bidding began furiously.
3.
a bid.
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4.
do someone's bidding, to submit to someone's orders; perform services for someone: After he was promoted to vice president at the bank, he expected everyone around him to do his bidding.

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Origin:
1125–75; Middle English; see bid1, -ing1
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bid

1   [bid] verb, bade or (Archaic) bad for 1, 2, 5, 6, 13 or bid for 3, 4, 7, 14, 15; bid·den or bid for 1, 2, 5, 6, 13 or bid for 3, 4, 7, 14; bid·ding; noun
verb (used with object)
1.
to command; order; direct: to bid them depart.
2.
to express (a greeting, farewell, benediction, or wish): to bid good night.
3.
Commerce. to offer (a certain sum) as the price one will pay or charge: They bid $25,000 and got the contract.
4.
Cards. to enter a bid of (a given quantity or suit): to bid two no-trump.
5.
to summon by invitation; invite.
verb (used without object)
6.
to command; order; direct: I will do as you bid.
7.
to make a bid: She bid at the auction for the old chair.
noun
8.
an act or instance of bidding.
9.
Cards.
a.
an offer to make a specified number of points or to take a specified number of tricks.
b.
the amount of such an offer.
c.
the turn of a person to bid.
10.
an invitation: a bid to join the club.
11.
an attempt to attain some goal or purpose: a bid for election.
12.
Also called bid price. Stock Exchange. the highest price a prospective buyer is willing to pay for a security at a given moment.
Idioms
13.
bid fair. fair1 (def. 30).
14.
bid in, Commerce. to overbid all offers for (property) at an auction in order to retain ownership.
15.
bid up, Commerce. to increase the market price of by increasing bids.
Origin:
before 900; Middle English bidden, Old English biddan to beg, ask; cognate with Old Frisian bidda, Old Saxon biddian, Old High German bittan (German bitten), Old Norse bithja, Gothic bidjan; all < Germanic *bid-ja- (< Indo-European *bhidh-) command, akin to Greek peíthein to persuade, inspire with trust, English bide

Related forms
bid·der, noun

Can be confused: bidder, bitter.

Synonyms
1. charge; require, enjoin. 3. offer, tender, proffer. 8. offer, proposal; proffer.

bid

2   [bid]
verb Archaic.
past participle of bide.
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bidding (ˈbɪdɪŋ)
 
—n
1.  an order; command (often in the phrases doorfollow the bidding of, at someone's bidding)
2.  an invitation; summons
3.  the act of making bids, as at an auction or in bridge
4.  bridge a group of bids considered collectively, esp those made on a particular deal

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bid
The modern verb is a merger of two old words. The sense in bid farewell is from O.E. biddan "to ask, entreat, pray, beseech; order; beg" (class V strong verb, past tense bæd, past participle beden), from P.Gmc. *bidjan "to pray, entreat" (cf. Ger. bitten "to ask," O.H.G., 8c.), which, according
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to Kluge and Watkins is from a PIE base *gwhedh- "to ask, pray" (see bead). A bid at an auction, meanwhile, is from O.E. beodan "offer, proclaim" (class II strong verb; p.t. bead, p.p. boden), from P.Gmc. *biudanan "to stretch out, reach out, offer, present," (cf. Ger. bieten "to offer"), from PIE base *bh(e)udh- "to be aware, make aware" (cf. Skt. bodhati "is awake, is watchful, observes," buddhah "awakened, enlightened;" O.C.S. bljudo "to observe;" Lith. budeti "to be awake;" O.Ir. buide "contentment, thanks").
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