Definition of 'bid up'
phrasal verb
bidIf 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]
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bid up in British
verb
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bid up in American
to raise the amount bid
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Used Rarely. bid up is in the lower 50% of commonly used words in the Collins dictionary
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