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bid-rigging — ˈbid ˌrigging noun [uncountable] 1. LAW COMMERCE a type of fraud in which businesses that are competing against each other for a contract secretly make arrangements with each other in order to get advantages for themselves, for example by… … Financial and business terms
bid rigging — UK US noun [U] LAW ► illegal behaviour by companies that are competing for work in which they make a secret agreement, for example to increase their prices or to share the work, in order that they both gain financially: »The Office of Fair… … Financial and business terms
bid — {{Roman}}I.{{/Roman}} noun 1 offer of a sum of money to buy sth ADJECTIVE ▪ high ▪ The highest bid was only $200. ▪ low ▪ opening, starting ▪ … Collocations dictionary
bid — bid1 W3 [bıd] n 1.) an offer to pay a particular price for something, especially at an ↑auction bid for ▪ They put in a bid for the house. ▪ the person who places the highest bid ▪ We ve made a bid of nearly £400m for the company. ▪ A takeover… … Dictionary of contemporary English
bid — v. & n. v. (bidding; past bid, archaic bade; past part. bid, archaic bidden) 1 tr. & intr. (past and past part. bid) (often foll. by for, against) a (esp. at an auction) offer (a certain price) (did not bid for the vase; bid against the dealer;… … Useful english dictionary
Bid Euchre — Origin United States Alternative name(s) Hoss, Pfeffer, Fifer … Wikipedia
Bid whist — is a variant, played in the United States, of the classic card game, whist. As indicated by the name, bid whist adds a bidding element to the game that is not present in classic whist. It is generally accepted that the game of bridge came from… … Wikipedia
Against Apion — (lat. Contra Apionem or In Apionem) was a polemical work written by Flavius Josephus as a defense of Judaism as a classical religion and philosophy, stressing its antiquity against what he perceived as more recent traditions of the Greeks. Text… … Wikipedia
Bid tv — Infobox TV channel name = bid tv logofile = Bid tv logo.png logosize = logoalt = launch = October, 2000 share = 0.1% share as of = June 2008 share source = [http://www.barb.co.uk/viewingsummary/monthreports.cfm?report=monthgmulti] owner = sit up… … Wikipedia
bid */*/ — I UK [bɪd] / US verb Word forms bid : present tense I/you/we/they bid he/she/it bids present participle bidding past tense bid past participle bid 1) a) [intransitive/transitive] to offer a particular amount of money for something, for example at … English dictionary
