bidder

Concise Oxford English Dictionary © 2008 Oxford University Press:
bid1

▶verb (bids, bidding; past and past part. bid)

• 1 offer (a certain price) for something, especially at an auction.

  ■ (bid for) (of a contractor) tender for (work).

• 2 (often bid for) make an effort to obtain or achieve.

• 3 Bridge make a statement during the auction undertaking to make (a certain number of tricks).

▶noun

• 1 an offer to buy something.

  ■ an offer to do work or supply goods at a stated price.

• 2 an effort to obtain or achieve.

• 3 Bridge an undertaking by a player in the auction to make a stated number of tricks with a stated suit as trumps.

– derivatives
bidder noun,
bidding noun.

– origin OE bēodan ‘to offer, command’, of Gmc origin.

Concise Oxford English Dictionary © 2008 Oxford University Press:
bid2

▶verb (bids, bidding; past bid or bade; past part. bid)

• 1 utter (a greeting or farewell) to.

• 2 archaic command (someone) to do something.

– phrases
bid fair to archaic seem likely to.

– origin OE biddan ‘ask’, of Gmc origin.