bidding
Making offers competitively
Bidding is the act of making offers or bids, especially at an auction: The bidding started at five hundred dollars.
It also means a command or invitation: I came at her bidding.
To do someone's bidding is to carry out their wishes or orders.
A bidding war occurs when competing parties drive prices up through successive offers.
Conducts public sales
- paddleFlat-bladed water tool
- gavelSmall ceremonial hammer
- lotLarge amount or portion
- reserveSupply kept back
hammer · increment · catalogue · consignment · appraisal · provenance · estate · antiques
Structure spanning an obstacle
- conventionAgreed standard of behavior
- signalMessage-conveying cue
- responseAnswer to stimulus
- overcallBid higher than opponent
double · redouble · trump · no-trump · slam · major · minor · partnership
Authoritative command or urging
- orderMethodical arrangement or request
- directiveFormal command or instruction
- instructionGuidance for action
- mandateFormal authoritative directive
decree · summons · dictate · obedience · compliance · charge · beck and call · wish
Soft or sore
- proposalFormal plan for consideration
- procurementObtaining goods externally
- RFPFormal bid solicitation
- submissionYielding to another's will
quote · estimate · contractor · subcontractor · terms · specifications · deadline · sealed
auctioneer
Conducts public sales
reserve · hammer · increment · catalogue · consignment · appraisal · provenance · estate · antiques · collectibles
bridge
Structure spanning an obstacle
- conventionAgreed standard of behavior
- signalMessage-conveying cue
- responseAnswer to stimulus
overcall · double · redouble · trump · no-trump · slam · major · minor · partnership · opener
behest
Authoritative command or urging
- orderMethodical arrangement or request
- directiveFormal command or instruction
- instructionGuidance for action
mandate · decree · summons · dictate · obedience · compliance · charge · beck and call · wish · will
tender
Soft or sore
- proposalFormal plan for consideration
- procurementObtaining goods externally
- RFPFormal bid solicitation
submission · quote · estimate · contractor · subcontractor · terms · specifications · deadline · sealed · competitive
- negotiationbargaining, bargain, negotiate, mediation, compromise
- allocation methodslottery, quota, rationing, first come first served, merit-based
- Cattle Auctionlivestock auction, auctioneer, holding pen, lot numbers, buyers
- livestock auctionsauctioneer, auction barn, auction block, stockyard, cattle market
- auction portraitsSotheby's, Christie's, hammer price, reserve price, lot number
- Belotetrump card, trumps, tricks, melds, declarations
biddingselling
Trading for payment
asking · offering · auctioning · listing · solicitation
biddingobeying
Following directives given
complying · resistance · disobedience · submitting · defiance
- bidding warCompeting offers driving prices up
- competitive biddingRivals offering prices
- do one's bidding
- do someone's biddingExecute another's commands
- bidding processFormal competition for contracts
- bidding priceProposed purchase amount
forbidding, outbidding, overbidding, rebidding, underbidding