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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The lack of affordable homes is partly responsible for driving up prices even higher, as would-be buyers often bid up home prices to secure a property, Evangelou said.
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Anne Marie D. Lee, CBS News, 15 May 2025
Nonetheless, investors have been bidding up the fund, shrinking the fund’s discount to net asset value (NAV, or the value of its underlying holdings) down close to par.
—Michael Foster, Forbes.com, 29 Apr. 2025
Like the broader market, Club stock Nvidia opened higher, with investors bidding up shares after CEO Jensen Huang’s CES address.
—Matthew J. Belvedere, CNBC, 7 Jan. 2025
Nine final automatic qualifying bids up for grabs Most of the conference tournaments wrapped up on Saturday night, but there are still nine tournaments – five on the men’s side, four on the women’s – that have their championship games on Sunday.
—Kyle Feldscher, CNN, 16 Mar. 2025
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Anne Marie D. Lee, CBS News, 15 May 2025
Nonetheless, investors have been bidding up the fund, shrinking the fund’s discount to net asset value (NAV, or the value of its underlying holdings) down close to par.
—Michael Foster, Forbes.com, 29 Apr. 2025
Like the broader market, Club stock Nvidia opened higher, with investors bidding up shares after CEO Jensen Huang’s CES address.
—Matthew J. Belvedere, CNBC, 7 Jan. 2025
Nine final automatic qualifying bids up for grabs Most of the conference tournaments wrapped up on Saturday night, but there are still nine tournaments – five on the men’s side, four on the women’s – that have their championship games on Sunday.
—Kyle Feldscher, CNN, 16 Mar. 2025
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“Bid up.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/bid%20up. Accessed 28 May. 2025.
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