(law) a conspiracy in which two or more competitors agree about who will submit the winning bid when there is a call for bids.

plural of bid hook

plural of bid rigging

plural of bidding box

(transitive) To defy.

An offer to buy in an auction for any value up to a specified maximum.

In an auction, the practice of bidding less than what one believes the goods are worth.

(business) Bidding activity or a bidding event taking place on the Internet.

(informal) For an auctioneer to acknowledge non-existent bids, so as to fraudulently drive up the price for the actual competing bidders.

Misconstruction of bide one's time or bode one's time