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bid

A bid is an offer to enter into a contract to buy something or to do some kind of job. He amazed the art world with his winning bid of nearly $54 million for Van Gogh's painting, Irises. The Suns also made a bid for $2.3 million to get Willis from the Bulls. A bid is an attempt to do something. He went back to teaching after his unsuccessful presidential bid in 1988. She lost her bid at a world record fourth gold medal in swimming.

bid

If you bid for something, you offer to enter into a contract to buy it or to do it. Microsoft bid $44.6 billion to acquire Yahoo. If you bid for something, you attempt to do or get it. Montesinos, decided not to bid for the new position. They bid on and won a job to build a bank in Marietta, Ohio. If you bid someone a good day, evening, etc., you wish it to them in greeting. She bade farewell to her sister, Fannie, and to other relatives and friends. If you bid someone (to) do something, you tell them to do it. Standing with her back to the open door, she bade him pass.

bid

(= offer) propose a payment The Swiss dealer offered $2 million for the painting ask for or request earnestly The prophet bid all people to become good persons (= wish) invoke upon wish you a nice evening bid farewell (= call) make a demand, as for a card or a suit or a show of hands He called his trump make a serious effort to attain something His campaign bid for the attention of the poor population (= play) an attempt to get something they made a futile play for power he made a bid to gain attention (= command) an authoritative direction or instruction to do something (= invite) ask someone in a friendly way to do something a formal proposal to buy at a specified price (bridge) the number of tricks a bridge player is willing to contract to make

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Simple sentences

She was forced to bid her hometown farewell.
Activists chained themselves to bulldozers in a bid to stop a mining company clearing a forest to get access to undeveloped coal deposits.
How much did you bid?

Movie subtitles

Sorry, Yuffie. we must bid farewell to each other here.
My daughter, don't you want to bid farewell to your brother Gunther?
If you would honor me and gladden my heart, then bid my brothers as guests to your court.
Bid up.
I know what you mean. Bid 'em up.
I bid 'em up. I go higher.
You know you're allowed to bid.
I'll bid.
I didn't have a chance to bid. What do you mean?
We're going to California. So I'll bid you a fond farewell.
I bid you welcome.
And one, and two, and 3. 5,300 bid. And 5 did you say, sir?
Was that the duke's agent who made that last bid?
You mean to say that last bid was for you?
I hope you get the chance to bid them farewell.
Your bid, partner.
I bid one spade.
You bid four spades, eh?
Oh, she want to bid again.
Now I bid two.
Yes, we're going to California, so I'll bid you a fond farewell.
And with that, sir, I bid you a fond farewell.
And so, in retiring as president of this college, it is indeed a painful task to bid you all goodbye.
The nations of the world will bid for it - thousands, millions.
In which case, I shall bid you good day.
I bid 20,000 pieces of eight.
You pay this money that you bid or I'II call the cops!
Bid 'em up. Go higher.
I didn't have a chance to bid.
Say, yesterday I went to Mr. Furusawa's place to bid in the auction, but I was told he wasn't at home.
I went to the auction to bid. and I wept.
You scorned my bid to a concert.
If Hanson House should get wind of this, they'd get to Underwood with their bid before I could get organized.
You know, the first time you bid three spades tonight, I am definitely going to break that lovely little neck of yours.
Any bid made subsequently to an opponent's bid is known as an overcall or a defensive bid.

News and current affairs

American radicalism, however, resulted in increasing tensions between religious communities in the Middle East, and the rise of radical Iran with its bid for regional hegemony.
After former US Vice President Al Gore lost his bid for the presidency in 2000, he became a leader of the social movement to combat global climate change, and his style changed from pragmatic to inspirational and prophetic.
But Mrs Megawati has just been defeated in her bid for reelection.
Hamas initially reacted skeptically to the statehood bid, but supported it after the cease-fire, owing to its expectation that it will be able to exploit Palestine's upgraded status.
China Development Bank also made an investment in Barclays to bolster its bid for ABN AMRO which, though it failed, helped the Dutch bank get the full value for its assets.
The starting point for the EU's unhappy bid to create a shared constitution had been fears that its decision-making mechanisms were being overloaded by the accession of so many new members, first in May 2004 and again at the beginning of this year.
Research assistants with one year of experience working on derivatives issues would get bid away by the private sector at salaries five times what the government could pay.
In a bid to reconcile euro-skeptics and euro-enthusiasts, the idea of a two speed Europe - which began with the Schengen border arrangements and continued with the euro - gained momentum.
Superior German economic performance has bid up the euro and European interest rates to levels that, while comfortable for the Germans, put pressure on the euro zone's laggards.
Otherwise, we might bid farewell to old development divides only to welcome new ones.
It would seem that bid-offer spreads are falling, which we might regard as positive.
Unless the US and the EU relinquish their grip, the Fund's latest bid for relevance may well turn out to be its last.
At another level, Iran's rise, reinforced by its suspected bid for nuclear weapons threatens to awaken historical hostilities, between Sunnis and Shiites and between Persians and Arabs.
Since coming to power, the current Ahmedinejad regime has awarded IRGC-affiliated companies billions in no-bid contracts, increasing the already great perception among the Iranian public of its corruption.
That means that tomorrow it could bid for contracts to build missile bases on the coast of the People's Republic of China.
LONDON - The Islamic State's attack in Paris in November was the latest crisis to delay Britain's bid to renegotiate its membership in the European Union, ahead of a planned referendum on whether to maintain the relationship.
We must bid farewell to national egoisms, vested interests, dirty tricks, and assumed certainties.
While Russia was launching its bid to subordinate Ukraine, I was in prison, with scant hope of ever regaining my freedom.
In that case, the FARC might use peace talks - as it has several times in the past - to bid for time, re-arm and regroup.
Strengthening the state and fostering a stable and growing economy would also provide the best rebuke to the FARC and its bid for time.
PARIS - The contrast between the Schuman Declaration of May 9, 1950, which launched the European unification project through the Coal and Steel Community, and the fearful bid to save Greece and rescue the euro of May 9, 2010, could not be more stark.
Park, who lost her first bid for the GNP's nomination to Lee in 2007, needs to ensure that no rupture with her erstwhile rival knocks her off the path to victory in 2012.
Unlike former Peruvian dictator Alberto Fujimori's daughter, who lost her presidential bid in Peru last month, Park is likely to defy her family's tragic history.
But there is no denying that her rise to power in India's largest state, which sends 80 members to parliament, has given her a vital platform to bid for India's most powerful job.
The end of President Alvaro Uribe's re-election bid in Colombia will complicate life for the Caracas caudillo, removing a pretext for his own perpetuation in power.
China's first choice for the position, Henry Tang, was forced to withdraw because of private indiscretions and a disgraceful bid to have his wife take the fall for a zoning violation.
As Asian innovation comes into its own, the US and other developed countries must find ways to participate - or risk missing the opportunity of the century in a vain bid to recapture bygone supremacy.