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bid

 
 
/bɪd/ verb (present participle bidding, past tense and past participle bid)

Translation

[I, T] to offer to pay an amount of money for something
fiyat teklif etmek, önermek
They bid $500 million for the company.21062107
bid for sth; bid to do sth to try to do or obtain something
bir şeyi yapmak veya elde etmek için uğraşmak, çabalamak
Five firms have bid for the contract.1842
(Definition of bid verb from the Cambridge Learner's Dictionary English-Turkish © Cambridge University Press)

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