bid up

verb

bade up or bid up; bidden up or bid up also bade up; bidding up; bids up

transitive verb

: to raise the price of (something, such as property at auction) by a succession of offers

Examples of bid up in a Sentence

Recent Examples on the Web After just a day, the Rookie Patch Autograph card had been bid up to $690,000. Daniel Miller, Los Angeles Times, 14 Mar. 2024 When a value stock does better than expected, investors are pleasantly surprised and more apt to reward the company by bidding up the stock. Charles Rotblut, Forbes, 29 Feb. 2024 Part of the reason is high mortgage rates prevented buyers from bidding up the cost of housing. Andrew Khouri, Los Angeles Times, 26 Feb. 2024 Benioff had made the decision difficult at least, bidding up the price repeatedly before eventually losing out despite a final offer that was actually a few bucks per share higher than Microsoft’s bid. Kurt Wagner, Fortune, 21 Feb. 2024 The previous day investors bid up Spotify after learning the streaming service planned its biggest-ever headcount reduction. Christiaan Hetzner, Fortune, 8 Dec. 2023 What doesn’t make sense is how so many investors seemed to magically presage this news, bidding up Cerevel’s stock starting Monday morning and continuing all the way into yesterday’s close. Damian Garde, STAT, 7 Dec. 2023 After Ukraine was invaded, European utilities and manufacturers bid up boatloads of shale gas to replace Russian exports. Ryan Dezember, WSJ, 30 Oct. 2022 ObamaCare is a demand-side policy, and that merely bids up prices without increasing overall availability. WSJ, 4 Dec. 2023

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Word History

First Known Use

1864, in the meaning defined above

Time Traveler
The first known use of bid up was in 1864

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“Bid up.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/bid%20up. Accessed 28 Mar. 2024.

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