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): --
outbid sb for sth The retail group outbid all three competitors for space in the shopping centre.
outbid sb on sth He was outbid on every property he was considering.
They made a full-price offer but were outbid by another buyer.
A well-funded religious organisation could outbid all other organisations, including other religious organisations, to broadcast religious material.
It is now outbidding us on tax cuts, so it might want to spend less.
It is to stop individual countries trying to outbid each other for investment.
Would it not be extremely damaging if the new regional development quangos were allowed to outbid each other, with public money, for inward investment?
Those amendments would have outbid my very modest amendments by raising to one-sixth the rate of accrual.
The bigger carriers almost always possess the ability to outbid any small regional carrier if airport slots and landing charges are subject to market pricing.
They see the major nations outbidding them for scarce conventional energy supplies and forbidding them access to nuclear power.
I will not enter into any kind of auction with the parties trying to outbid each other in this and every other sphere.
