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vendor bid

vendor bid noun: a type of bid at an auction which is made by the auctioneer on behalf of the vendor, without any desire to buy the article. This is used as a tactic to keep the bids moving, or to persuade buyers to pay more, or merely to have a higher price to report if the property is passed in. Such a bid is in essence a fiction; if not clearly announced as such, it approaches the deliberate deception of a dummy bid.

Noun

vendor bid (plural vendor bids)

  1. A type of bid at an auction which is made by the auctioneer on behalf of the vendor, without any desire to buy the article. This is used as a tactic to keep the bids moving, or to persuade buyers to pay more, or merely to have a higher price to report if the property is passed in. Such a bid is in essence a fiction; if not clearly announced as such, it approaches the deliberate deception of a dummy bid.

Forms of vendor bid

pluralvendor bids

Questions about vendor bid

What does vendor bid mean?
Vendor bid means a type of bid at an auction which is made by the auctioneer on behalf of the vendor, without any desire to buy the article. This is used as a tactic to keep the bids moving, or to persuade buyers to pay more, or merely to have a higher price to report if the property is passed in. Such a bid is in essence a fiction; if not clearly announced as such, it approaches the deliberate deception of a dummy bid.
What part of speech is vendor bid?
Vendor bid is a noun.
What is the plural of vendor bid?
The plural of vendor bid is vendor bids.

Words near vendor bid in the dictionary

  1. venditions
  2. Vendla
  3. Vendlerian
  4. vendor
  5. vendor agnostic
  6. vendor bid
  7. vendor bids
  8. vendor locator
  9. vendor locators
  10. vendor's lien
  11. vendor's liens

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