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
Examples of bid up in a Sentence
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Investors sometimes assign lofty valuations to small, loss-making companies in anticipation of rapid growth — or a belief that other investors will continue to bid up a company’s shares, for whatever reason — but typically not on this scale.
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Joe Rennison, New York Times, 26 Mar. 2024
Investors on Reddit and other social media sites in 2021 decided to bid up shares of the struggling stock to punish hedge funds and institutional firms who hoped to turn a profit from short-selling GameStop’s stock.
—Krystal Hur, CNN, 22 Mar. 2024
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
Joe Rennison, New York Times, 26 Mar. 2024
Investors on Reddit and other social media sites in 2021 decided to bid up shares of the struggling stock to punish hedge funds and institutional firms who hoped to turn a profit from short-selling GameStop’s stock.
—Krystal Hur, CNN, 22 Mar. 2024
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
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“Bid up.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/bid%20up. Accessed 19 Apr. 2024.
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