bidding 1 of 2

noun

Definition of biddingnext
as in charging

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bidding

2 of 2

verb

present participle of bid
1
as in ordering
to issue orders to (someone) by right of authority the servants were expected to do exactly as they were bidden

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2
as in inviting
to request the presence or participation of as company president, I bid you all to come to our annual holiday party!

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Recent Examples of Synonyms for bidding
  1. instruction
  2. instructing
  3. asking
  4. dictation
  5. telling
  6. direction
  7. prohibition
Noun
  • Read on for step-by-step instructions on how to watch New Year’s Eve Live: Nashville’s Big Bash with Hulu+ Live TV.
    Lea Veloso, StyleCaster, 31 Dec. 2024
  • Affected ticket holders will be contacted directly with instructions regarding refunds.
    George Monastiriakos, Newsweek, 30 Dec. 2024
Definition of instruction
Verb
  • Lamont Westmoreland said the scam appears to work by sending recipients a text message saying the ticket needs to be addressed to avoid a late fee and instructing them to click a link.
    Alison Dirr, Journal Sentinel, 30 Dec. 2024
  • The report includes WhatsApp messages that appear to show Sara Netanyahu instructing a former aide to organize protests against political opponents and to intimidate Hadas Klein, a key witness in her husband's corruption trial.
    Tom Rogers, Newsweek, 26 Dec. 2024
Definition of instructing
Verb
  • But no one seemed all that interested in asking or talking about it Thursday, which makes this as good a time as any to revisit The Athletic’s midseason predictions for the Panthers.
    Joseph Person, The Athletic, 27 Dec. 2024
  • The new series of the British crime drama opens with a disturbing mystery, when the death of an elderly woman found in a cave has the team asking what drives a person to murder someone so vulnerable.
    Lily Ford, The Hollywood Reporter, 27 Dec. 2024
Definition of asking
Noun
  • But much of what survives are school children’s copies of other works, an indication that children learned by dictation with the student copying what a teacher said or wrote.
    Sara Novak, Discover Magazine, 12 Nov. 2024
  • This could be significant for those that routinely use voice dictation for text and email messages.
    Ken Colburn, The Arizona Republic, 10 Nov. 2024
Definition of dictation
Verb
  • Advertisement But telling officers not to lie during interrogations is not among them.
    Anita Chabria, Los Angeles Times, 23 Dec. 2024
  • By some accounts, this Santa Tracker initiative kicked off by complete accident in 1955, when a Colorado Springs Sears printed a newspaper announcement telling children to call a certain phone number to chat with Santa.
    Jeff Spry, Space.com, 23 Dec. 2024
Definition of telling
Noun
  • Microsoft has not openly declared there is a deal that’s left them out, but has made sure its public statements heavily point in that direction and away from potential hardware problems.
    Paul Tassi, Forbes, 2 Jan. 2025
  • Video of the incident captures the truck exploding in a ball of fire, and fireworks can also be seen going off in all directions.
    Michael Dorgan, Fox News, 2 Jan. 2025
Definition of direction
Noun
  • For example, Goldwater Institute's claim that the increase in the bed tax constitutes an unconstitutional tax on a service misconstrues the Arizona Constitution's prohibition on tax increases for services.
    Kelly Phillips Erb, Forbes, 9 Jan. 2025
  • The current version of the policy maintains prohibitions on Holocaust denials, Blackface, insinuations about Jewish people controlling the media.
    Kate Knibbs, WIRED, 7 Jan. 2025
Definition of prohibition
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bidding

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