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limit bid

limit bid noun: an offer to buy in an auction for any value up to a specified maximum.

Noun

limit bid (plural limit bids)

  1. An offer to buy in an auction for any value up to a specified maximum.
    • I am still inclined to think the London auctioneers can be trusted, but I have little faith in the Germans. If you put a $20 limit bid by accident on a $1 autograph at a German auction, you are pretty sure to get it at $20. Like some other auctioneers, if they know your limit they will supply any...1902, The Collector - Issues 160-171, page 29
    • Consistent with this conjecture, Cornelli and Goldreich show that investors submitting price-limited bids receive larger allocations when the book contains fewer limit bids.2007, B. Espen Eckbo, Handbook of Corporate Finance
  2. A bid that describes the bidders hand fairly precisely (indicating a small range of high card points and some indication of shape.)
    • OK, you are the captain (partner opened with a limit bid).2009, Eric v.d. Luft, How I Became a Life Master Playing the Weak No Trump, page 18
    • When the responder made a limit bid, the opener may already be in a position to name the final contract.2011, David Bird, Bridge Made Easy: Flash, page 5

Examples of limit bid in a sentence

  • If you put a $20 limit bid by accident on a $1 autograph at a German auction, you are pretty sure to get it at $20.1902, The Collector - Issues 160-171, page 29:
  • If a market again trades under the limit bid price or above the limit offered, go with the flow.2013, George Kleinman, Trading Commodities and Financial Futures:
  • If you raise a partner's opening suit bid from one to two, it is also a limit bid, showing six to nine points.2012, Harry Lampert, The Fun Way to Serious Bridge, page 62:

Forms of limit bid

plurallimit bids

Questions about limit bid

What does limit bid mean?
Limit bid means an offer to buy in an auction for any value up to a specified maximum.
How do you use limit bid in a sentence?
If you put a $20 limit bid by accident on a $1 autograph at a German auction, you are pretty sure to get it at $20.
What part of speech is limit bid?
Limit bid is a noun.
What is the plural of limit bid?
The plural of limit bid is limit bids.

Words near limit bid in the dictionary

  1. limings
  2. Limington
  3. liminocentric
  4. liminoid
  5. limit
  6. limit bid
  7. limit bids
  8. limit break
  9. limit breaks
  10. limit cardinal
  11. limit cardinals

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