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bid 1. Commerce a. a statement by a buyer, in response to an offer by a seller, of the more favourable terms that would be acceptable b. the price or other terms so stated 2. Bridge a. the number of tricks a player undertakes to make b. a player's turn to make a bid bid [bid] (engineering) An estimate of costs for specified construction, equipment, or services proposed to a customer company by one or more supplier or contractor companies. How to thank TFD for its existence? Tell a friend about us, add a link to this page, add the site to iGoogle, or visit webmaster's page for free fun content. |
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| Deane would say nothing decided about the matter; the fact that Wakem held the mortgage on the land might put it into his head to bid for the whole estate, and further, to outbid the cautious firm of Guest &Co. I was busy one morning upon something of this kind, when I called to Friday, and bid him to go to the sea-shore and see if he could find a turtle or a tortoise, a thing which we generally got once a week, for the sake of the eggs as well as the flesh. And disengaging a couple of chairs from the artistical lumber that usurped them, she bid us be seated, and resumed her place beside the easel - not facing it exactly, but now and then glancing at the picture upon it while she conversed, and giving it an occasional touch with her brush, as if she found it impossible to wean her attention entirely from her occupation to fix it upon her guests. |
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