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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
bidder
noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADJECTIVE
high
▪ If the salvage is worthwhile then this should be taken up and disposed of to the highest bidder.
▪ Luckily, the chatter of cold hard cash later persuaded the state to sell the name to the highest bidder.
▪ King John sold the marriages of such heiresses to the highest bidder.
▪ She works for the highest bidder.
▪ Mr. Warp obtained this P-59 by the fact that he was the highest bidder at a Government scrap sale!
▪ We live in a country in which all national political offices are for sale to the highest bidder.
low
▪ Now they can either award the deal to the lowest bidder or negotiate some kind of split.
▪ Scott Supply was low bidder on about 80 items, and low bidder over all.
other
▪ The other auction bidders are all tied up with litigation against the Special Forces.
▪ There are no other bidders: who would want a place like this nowadays - and in Khatm?
▪ He looked round; at the large woman with the flashy rings, the bald man, the other bidders.
▪ In both cases, there ware no other bidders in the room.
possible
▪ Only BellSouth Corp. remains a possible Bell bidder.
potential
▪ All potential bidders are told they are in an auction process.
▪ For one thing, most other potential bidders have expertise in either lodging or gaming, not both.
▪ David McErlain, the chairman of Anglo, said over 300 potential bidders had shown interest in the eight operations.
▪ The source said there were at least two other potential bidders waiting in the wings, but would not identify them.
▪ The troubled defence and electronics group has spent the week in talks a clutch of potential bidders.
▪ This means that potential competitive bidders will have more time to organise rival bids.
successful
▪ Once the hammer has fallen, the successful bidder for a house must exchange contracts immediately and pay a deposit.
▪ One successful bidder was Midvale Steel; soon naval inspectors, extended every courtesy, had the run of the Midvale shops.
▪ Railtrack will own the infrastructure but the successful bidder for the franchise will run the trains.
▪ The successful bidder is under a binding contract to purchase the relevant property.
▪ A Memorandum of Contract must be completed and exchanged prior to the successful bidder leaving the Auction Room.
▪ Organisers said that the successful bidder would lunch with the governor who had offered the prize.
▪ The scheme will be extended from Task Force areas to include successful City Challenge bidders.
■ NOUN
telephone
▪ Both were snapped up by anonymous telephone bidders who paid three times more than expected.
▪ On auction night in New York, 11 November, 1987, two telephone bidders competed for Irises.
■ VERB
prefer
▪ Adtranz Signal has been selected as preferred bidder, with the formal contract to be signed shortly.
select
▪ Adtranz Signal has been selected as preferred bidder, with the formal contract to be signed shortly.
sell
▪ Will they too be sold to the highest bidder, regardless of the interests of local people?
▪ I mean, we were selling to the highest bidder, right?
▪ Initially, the office was often sold to the highest bidder, who would recoup his losses by assiduity in collecting.
▪ Rather, they will be required to continually sell it to bidders, including other utilities.
▪ They sold to the highest bidder, an antiquarian book-seller from Fife.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ As an important by-product it will also make it difficult for prospective bidders to build up stakes in secret.
▪ Auctiongoers, whether novices or experienced bidders, need to go in with a budget in mind.
▪ David McErlain, the chairman of Anglo, said over 300 potential bidders had shown interest in the eight operations.
▪ Despite three attempts to buy it and run it themselves, it's been sold instead to another private bidder.
▪ He has said he hopes several bidders will compete.
▪ If the salvage is worthwhile then this should be taken up and disposed of to the highest bidder.
▪ The auctioneer will make eye contact with the bidders, and often will identify the bidder by number or clothing.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Bidder

Bidder \Bid"der\, n. [AS. biddere. ] One who bids or offers a price.
--Burke.

Wiktionary
bidder

n. Someone who bids, e.g. at an auction

WordNet
bidder

  1. n. someone who makes an offer

  2. someone who makes a bid at cards

Wikipedia
Bidder (surname)

Bidder is a surname. It may refer to:

  • Anna McClean Bidder (1903–2001), British zoologist
  • Birgit Bidder (born 1986), Swedish musician
  • Friedrich Bidder (1810–1894), German physiologist and anatomist
  • George Parker Bidder (1806–1878), British engineer
  • George Parker Bidder, Jr. (1836–1896), British lawyer
  • George Parker Bidder III (1863–1954), British marine biologist
  • Marion Bidder (1862–1932), British physiologist

Usage examples of "bidder".

Rumors of murder for hire, kickbacks, bribes, and peddling his influence to the highest bidder had dogged him quietly for years, but nothing stuck.

Men like these who roamed the countryside, hiring themselves out to the highest bidder, their loyalties as mutable as the wind, did so not by choice, but by circumstance.

Grees, Sligh, and Emala pushing through the eked performance hall, approaching likely-looking Twilight bidders on the pretext of offering them inside information on the auction merchandise.

I want an annulment or I will auction the diary to the highest bidder.

If you would be able to say that you have in your service Sir Gervas Jerome, knight banneret, and sole owner of Beacham Ford Park, with a rent-roll of four thousand good pounds a year, he is now up for sale, and will be knocked down to the bidder who pleases him best.

That was the final statement that Ed Mallan had made: that crooks like Hoot and Greasy will sell out to the highest bidder.

Gleaners collected their particular prizesjewel-like gallstones, misshaped organs, bright green inix eyes, polished pebbles from erdlu gizzardsand sold them, no questions asked, to the highest bidder.

Roman baggage train, and sold the entire tribe in one unculled lot to the highest bidder.

That Ardea should have lost all scruples, and that he should wish to sell his title of a Roman prince at as high a price as possible, to no matter what bidder, is so much the more a matter of indifference, for we Venetians do not allow ourselves to be imposed upon by the Roman nobility.

But we live in a land where public offices are sold to the highest bidder and mordida buys any favor from a government official.

Even before the daughters have spoken, or refused to speak, the trajectory of their love, there is this transgression: the commodified landscape is sliced up and parcelled out to the highest rhetorical bidder.

His loyalty is to himself, I think, and he would serve the highest bidder, even old Maccus, if it meant getting what he wants.

It was the lone voice fighting not only to keep the national parks for the people but also to keep them wild, because there was ever a hue and cry to develop park areas or to sell off mining or lumber rights to the highest bidder.

Hedrick, she realized that he had paid ten thousand dollars so she would relax, not try to escape, so she would agree to fly the saucer for the successful bidders, and die with the Russians.

One by one, the members of the delegation bowed to Hedrick, bowed to the remaining bidders, then filed out.