0 someone who offers to pay a particular amount of money for something:
1 a person who offers money for goods or property when competing with other people to buy it, or someone who offers to do a job for a particular price
2 a company or person that offers to pay a particular amount of money to buy something:
bidder for sth Nestle has been cited as a potential bidder for these businesses.
3 a company or organization that offers to do work for a particular price:
bidder for/on sth There have been several bidders on this project.
5 the person or company that offers to do a particular piece of work for the least amount of money:
The bidder had made the same bid in an earlier round.
Despite the importance of competitive bidding there has been little research that seeks to explain what makes successful bidders and how much they get.
In a combinatorial auction, bidders may place bids on combinations of items.
This progress in the development of bidding algorithms now means that software bidding agents are able to consistently outperform human bidders.
The bidder will, understandably, always make commercial incentives override other considerations.
What prevented him from selling his vote to the highest bidder?
The land could be sold via an auction process or through a licitation system to the highest bidder.
The bidders submit their encrypted bids to a blackboard.