0 to offer to pay a higher price for something than someone else, especially at an auction (= public sale):
1 to offer to pay a higher price for something than someone else, especially at an auction (= public sale):
They made a full-price offer but were outbid by another buyer.
outbid sb on sth He was outbid on every property he was considering.
outbid sb for sth The retail group outbid all three competitors for space in the shopping centre.
The second condition is that coalitions of purchasers are not allowed, so that a person cannot be outbid by a coalition.
From the outset they were encouraged to outbid each other in the scale of their ambitions.
We have to undersell her, to outbid her, and to stop her getting supplies in every direction.
It is all our own fault: we were unprepared because we each of us tried to outbid the other.
Indeed, they are outbidding the company sector in its deficit as well.
That allowed it to outbid companies that made realistic cost commitment projections.
There will be a healthy debate rather than one in which we say that we are going to outbid each other for the resources.
I will not enter into any kind of auction with the parties trying to outbid each other in this and every other sphere.
