The antiques will be sold to the highest bidder (=the person who offers to pay the most).bidderbid‧der /ˈbɪdə $ -ər/ ●○○ noun [countable] 
The antiques will be sold to the highest bidder (=the person who offers to pay the most).2someone who offers to do work or provide services for a particular amount of money, in competition with others: one of 13 bidders for the contract
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- As an important by-product it will also make it difficult for prospective bidders to build up stakes in secret.
- Auctiongoers, whether novices or experienced bidders, need to go in with a budget in mind.
- David McErlain, the chairman of Anglo, said over 300 potential bidders had shown interest in the eight operations.
- Despite three attempts to buy it and run it themselves, it's been sold instead to another private bidder.
- He has said he hopes several bidders will compete.
- If the salvage is worthwhile then this should be taken up and disposed of to the highest bidder.
- The auctioneer will make eye contact with the bidders, and often will identify the bidder by number or clothing.
COLLOCATIONS FROM THE ENTRY The antiques will be sold to the highest bidder (=the person who offers to pay the most).COLLOCATIONS FROM THE CORPUSADJECTIVE
1someone who offers to pay a particular amount of money for something that is being sold: The antiques will be sold to the highest bidder (=the person who offers to pay the most).· If the salvage is worthwhile then this should be taken up and disposed of to the highest bidder.· Luckily, the chatter of cold hard cash later persuaded the state to sell the name to the highest bidder.· King John sold the marriages of such heiresses to the highest bidder.· She works for the highest bidder.· Mr. Warp obtained this P-59 by the fact that he was the highest bidder at a Government scrap sale!· We live in a country in which all national political offices are for sale to the highest bidder.
· Now they can either award the deal to the lowest bidder or negotiate some kind of split.· Scott Supply was low bidder on about 80 items, and low bidder over all.
· The other auction bidders are all tied up with litigation against the Special Forces.· There are no other bidders: who would want a place like this nowadays - and in Khatm?· He looked round; at the large woman with the flashy rings, the bald man, the other bidders.· In both cases, there ware no other bidders in the room.
· Only BellSouth Corp. remains a possible Bell bidder.
· All potential bidders are told they are in an auction process.· For one thing, most other potential bidders have expertise in either lodging or gaming, not both.· David McErlain, the chairman of Anglo, said over 300 potential bidders had shown interest in the eight operations.· The source said there were at least two other potential bidders waiting in the wings, but would not identify them.· The troubled defence and electronics group has spent the week in talks a clutch of potential bidders.· This means that potential competitive bidders will have more time to organise rival bids.
· Once the hammer has fallen, the successful bidder for a house must exchange contracts immediately and pay a deposit.· One successful bidder was Midvale Steel; soon naval inspectors, extended every courtesy, had the run of the Midvale shops.· Railtrack will own the infrastructure but the successful bidder for the franchise will run the trains.· The successful bidder is under a binding contract to purchase the relevant property.· A Memorandum of Contract must be completed and exchanged prior to the successful bidder leaving the Auction Room.· Organisers said that the successful bidder would lunch with the governor who had offered the prize.· The scheme will be extended from Task Force areas to include successful City Challenge bidders.
NOUN· Both were snapped up by anonymous telephone bidders who paid three times more than expected.· On auction night in New York, 11 November, 1987, two telephone bidders competed for Irises.
VERB· Adtranz Signal has been selected as preferred bidder, with the formal contract to be signed shortly.
· Adtranz Signal has been selected as preferred bidder, with the formal contract to be signed shortly.
· Will they too be sold to the highest bidder, regardless of the interests of local people?· I mean, we were selling to the highest bidder, right?· Initially, the office was often sold to the highest bidder, who would recoup his losses by assiduity in collecting.· Rather, they will be required to continually sell it to bidders, including other utilities.· They sold to the highest bidder, an antiquarian book-seller from Fife.
The antiques will be sold to the highest bidder (=the person who offers to pay the most).2someone who offers to do work or provide services for a particular amount of money, in competition with others: one of 13 bidders for the contract