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counterbid

noun

Etymology

From counter- + bid.

  1. derived from *gʷʰedʰ-✻
  2. derived from *bidjaną✻
  3. derived from *biddjan✻
  4. derived from bidden
  5. prefixed as counterbid — “counter + bid”

Definitions

  1. A bid made in response to a previous bid by another party

    • RIM didn't immediately respond to questions about whether it will return to the table with a friendly counterbid.

  2. To make a counterbid

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for counterbid. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA