BID definition: 1. to offer a particular amount of money for something that is for sale and compete against other…. Learn more.

Bid comes from an Old English word meaning “to offer,” which is right in line with its meaning today. To bid is the act of offering a bid, or more generally to try to get something.

BID definition: to command; order; direct. See examples of bid used in a sentence.

If you bid for something that is being sold, you offer to pay a particular amount of money for it. When bid has this meaning, its past tense and past participle is bid.

Business to offer (a certain sum) as the price one will charge or pay: [~ + object (+ for + object)] They bid $25,000 (for the job) and got the contract.[no object; (~ + for + object)] I can't bid (for that vase); I …

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.

Definition of bid1 noun in Oxford Advanced Learner's Dictionary. Meaning, pronunciation, picture, example sentences, grammar, usage notes, synonyms and more.

Bid definition: To utter (a greeting or salutation).

BID meaning: 1 : to offer to pay (a particular amount of money) for something that is being sold to make a bid at an auction; 2 : to offer to do work for a particular price

The meaning of BID is to offer (a price) whether for payment or acceptance.