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Definition of 'bid up'

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bid up

phrasal verb
If someone bids up the value of something, they try to increase it, for example by offering to buy it at a higher price than usual.
...the British passion for bidding up the price of each other's houses. [VERB PARTICLE noun (not pronoun)]
They agreed to bid the picture up to 4,500 francs. [VERB noun PARTICLE]
bid
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bid up in British

verb
(adverb)
to increase the market price of (a commodity) by making artificial bids
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bid up in American

to raise the amount bid
bid
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Trends of 'bid up'

Used Rarely. bid up is in the lower 50% of commonly used words in the Collins dictionary

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Definition of bid up from the Collins English Dictionary

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The WH- words are also called interrogatives. They are used for WH- questions. They can be determiners, adverbs, or pronouns. WH- determiners When used as determiners, what , which, or whose can b...
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