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HOW TO PRONOUNCE

bidder

/ˈbɪ.dɚ/

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What does bidder mean?

noun

  1. Someone who bids (all senses), but most commonly, one offers to pay a specified price at an auction.
  2. One who commands or orders.

proper noun

  1. A surname.
More meanings (2)

noun

  1. (dated, rare) One who asks or invites.
  2. (archaic) One who begs.
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IPA pronunciation

/ˈbɪ.dɚ/

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He was still in the hospital and still willing to sacrifice his eighty-five-dollar gold watch to the highest bidder.
James J. (James John) DavisThe Iron Puddler: My Life in the Rolling Mills and What Came of ItProject Gutenberg ebook #1297
ON receiving intelligence of the arrest of Isabella, Mr. Gordon authorized the sheriff to sell her to the highest bidder.
William Wells BrownClotelle; Or, The Colored Heroine, a tale of the Southern States; Or, The President's DaughterProject Gutenberg ebook #241
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Numbers ranging from "low field" and forty-five to sixty-five and "high field" were sold by auction to the highest bidder.
Douglas, Sir MawsonThe Home of the Blizzard Being the Story of the Australasian Antarctic Expedition, 1911-1914Project Gutenberg ebook #6137
The members of the club send in their duplicate copies, or books they for any reason wish to dispose of, which are auctioned off to the highest bidder.
VariousThe Martin Luther King, Jr. Day, 1995, Memorial IssueProject Gutenberg ebook #206
She: Therefore take thought and consider, weigh well, as I do, the whole, You for mere beauty a bidder, say, would you barter a soul?
Adam Lindsay GordonPoems by Adam Lindsay GordonProject Gutenberg ebook #258