bidding

Etymology

verb

  1. present participle and gerund of bid

noun

  1. That which one is bidden to do; a command.
    Do their biddings, and they will lead you to "whatsoever things are true, whatsoever things are honest, whatsoever things are just, whatsoever things are pure, whatsoever things are lovely, whatsoever things are of good report." 1868, Fulwar William Fowle, Sermons preached in the cathedral church of Salisbury, page 172
  2. The act of placing a bid.
    Their biddings forced existing owners into ruinous competition; they mortgaged their ancestral acres to buy up outlying properties or round off their boundaries. 1912, Rowland Prothero, 1st Baron Ernle, English Farming, Past and Present, page 322

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