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bidding
/ ˈbɪdɪŋ /
noun
- an order; command (often in the phrases do or follow the bidding of , at someone's bidding )
- an invitation; summons
- the act of making bids, as at an auction or in bridge
- bridge a group of bids considered collectively, esp those made on a particular deal
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Word History and Origins
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Idioms and Phrases
- do someone's bidding, to submit to someone's orders; perform services for someone:
After he was promoted to vice president at the bank, he expected everyone around him to do his bidding.
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Example Sentences
So, whose bidding do we think these candidates are going to do?
In a neat line, his agent, beginning a bidding war, promised: “Michiko Kakutani will flip for this.”
McDonnell was poised to be the beneficiary of a bidding war among the biggest law firms.
He was bidding a final farewell to the 9/11 nightmare and the odyssey to kill Osama bin Laden.
Unfortunately for the wannabe-thugs at 1325 G St., the friendly officers of the DCPD were not about to do their bidding.
Bidding a young bank manager take charge of the detachment, Frank led the newcomer rapidly to headquarters.
Gordon Wright stood there, looking at him—with a gaze which Bernard returned for a moment before bidding him to come in.
Before bidding the men go that way, he had satisfied himself that there was a key on the outside of the door.
In the street the men of his escort sat their horses, having mounted at his bidding in readiness for the journey.
But this small fear was immediately dissipated when she ran in after bidding Amy good-night.
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Definitions and idiom definitions from Dictionary.com Unabridged, based on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2023
Idioms from The American Heritage® Idioms Dictionary copyright © 2002, 2001, 1995 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company.
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