bid up
verb
bade up or bid up; bidden up or bid up also bade up; bidding up; bids up
: to raise the price of (something, such as property at auction) by a succession of offers
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Investors seem to be bidding up the shares more on expectations than reality.
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Kyle Khan-Mullins, Forbes.com, 3 Sep. 2025
Restricting housing near transit leads to competition that bids up the prices of those homes.
—Nicole Capretz, San Diego Union-Tribune, 28 Aug. 2025
Millennials and Gen Zers are bidding up prices for rare cars from the 1980s, 1990s and 2000s.
—Robert Frank, CNBC, 14 Aug. 2025
That market lead alone has encouraged investors to bid up its stock price to more than $250 a share and a market cap north of $108 billion as of Tuesday.
—Jason Del Rey, Fortune, 6 Aug. 2025
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Kyle Khan-Mullins, Forbes.com, 3 Sep. 2025
Restricting housing near transit leads to competition that bids up the prices of those homes.
—Nicole Capretz, San Diego Union-Tribune, 28 Aug. 2025
Millennials and Gen Zers are bidding up prices for rare cars from the 1980s, 1990s and 2000s.
—Robert Frank, CNBC, 14 Aug. 2025
That market lead alone has encouraged investors to bid up its stock price to more than $250 a share and a market cap north of $108 billion as of Tuesday.
—Jason Del Rey, Fortune, 6 Aug. 2025
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“Bid up.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/bid%20up. Accessed 11 Sep. 2025.
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