bidding

Meanings

1. 1
   noun

   a request to be present

   The dog came at the owner's bidding.

2. 2
   noun

   That which one is bidden to do; a command.

   I still have lots of paperwork to do at the boss's bidding.

3. 3
   noun

   The act of placing a bid.

   Their biddings forced existing owners into ruinous competition; they mortgaged their ancestral acres to buy up outlying properties or round off their boundaries.

4. 4
   noun

   (bridge) the number of tricks a bridge player is willing to contract to make

5. 5
   noun

   an authoritative direction or instruction to do something

6. 6
   verb

   present participle and gerund of bid