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# bidder

«bidder» in Mova's school dictionary: **A person who offers money for something at an auction** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples.

### part of speech

noun (a bidder, bidders)

### meaning for a pupil

1) A person who offers money for something at an auction. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/bidder/#m1)

2) A company or person who offers to do a job for a certain price. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/bidder/#m2)

### sense in the lessons

It appears in stories and real life about auctions, online sales and building contracts. It tells the reader someone is competing to buy or to get work. Phrases: "the highest bidder", "the lowest bidder", "sold to the highest bidder".

### examples

- The painting was sold to the highest bidder. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/bidder/#x1)
- There were ten bidders at the farm auction. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/bidder/#x2)
- The bidder in the green hat raised her paddle. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/bidder/#x3)
- Online, the last bidder won the toy at the final second. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/bidder/#x4)
- The council chose the bidder with the best plan. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/bidder/#x5)
- Only one bidder offered more than the starting price. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/bidder/#x6)
- Now it was not the custom to show a slave to a private bidder, but as no one dared to disobey the vizir his request was granted. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/bidder/#x7)

### note

Comes from "bid" (bid, bids, bid, bidding) with double d. "The highest bidder" wins an auction. In maths problems about auctions, each new bid must be bigger than the one before.

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «bidder» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/bidder/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.