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bid up

bid up verb: to raise the price of (an item at auction) by bidding.

Verb

bid up (third-person singular simple present bids up, present participle bidding up, simple past and past participle bid up)

  1. (transitive) To raise the price of (an item at auction) by bidding.

Forms of bid up

third-person singular presentbids up
present participlebidding up
past participlebid up
pastbid up

Questions about bid up

What does bid up mean?
Bid up means to raise the price of (an item at auction) by bidding.
What part of speech is bid up?
Bid up is a verb.
What is the past tense of bid up?
The past tense of bid up is bid up.

Words near bid up in the dictionary

  1. bid price
  2. bid prices
  3. bid rigging
  4. bid riggings
  5. bid shading
  6. bid up
  7. bid wanted
  8. bid whist
  9. bid'a
  10. bid-ask spread
  11. bid-ask spreads

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