| 单词 | to bid against |
| 释义 | > as lemmasto bid against b. intransitive (elliptical) To offer (any one) a price, to make an offer (for a thing), as ‘to bid at an auction.’ to bid against (a person): to compete with (him) in offers. Often figurative as in ‘to bid for the Irish vote.’ Also with indirect passive, to be bid for; and with complemental object, to bid (a thing) up: to raise its price by successive bids. ΘΚΠ society > trade and finance > buying > buy [verb (intransitive)] > make various types of bid revie1591 underbid1611 bida1616 overbid1616 to buy over a person's head1682 ticket1778 spring1851 tender1865 jolly1869 society > trade and finance > buying > buy [verb (transitive)] > bid for or offer to buy > bid against to bid against1776 to run up1832 society > trade and finance > buying > buy [verb (intransitive)] > make various types of bid > raise price by bidding puff1822 bid1864 society > trade and finance > buying > buy [verb (transitive)] > bid for or offer to buy > raise (the price) by bidding bid1864 trot1864 sky1892 sweeten1904 β. a1616 W. Shakespeare Cymbeline (1623) iii. vi. 68 I bid for you, as I do buy. View more context for this quotation 1776 A. Smith Inq. Wealth of Nations I. i. viii. 105 Masters..bid against one another, in order to get [workmen] . View more context for this quotation 1780 R. B. Sheridan School for Scandal v. iii. 73 I stood a worse chance..and had like to have been knocked down without being bid for. 1849 T. B. Macaulay Hist. Eng. I. 669 The intolerant king and the intolerant church were eagerly bidding against each other for the support of the party. 1859 A. Leighton in Wilson's Hist. Tales of Borders (new ed.) XX. 256 Some other individuals bade, and the bodes had arrived at £14,000. 1864 J. H. Burton Scot Abroad II. 264 They bade them up until they reached 10,000 livres. < as lemmas |
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