an offer to buy all or the majority of the capital shares of a company in an attempted takeover
the highest price a prospective buyer for a good or service is prepared to pay
Wiktionary Definition for: Bid
#(Past tense: '''bade''', past participle: '''bidden''') ''(transitive)'' to issue a command; to tell
Ex:''He '''bade''' me to come in.''
#(Past tense: '''bade''', past participle: '''bidden''') ''(transitive)'' to invite; to summon
Ex:''She was '''bidden''' to the wedding.''
#(Past tense: '''bade''', past participle: '''bidden''') ''(transitive)'' to utter a greeting or salutation
Ex:''We '''bade''' him farewell.''
Ex:'''1999:''' " H e walked up to the village of Wall and '''bade''' good morning to the guards on the gate." — ''Stardust'', Neil Gaiman, page 15 (2001 Perennial Edition).
#(Past tense and past participle: '''bid''') ''(intransitive)'' to make an offer to pay or accept a certain price
Ex:''Have you ever '''bid''' in an auction?''
#(Past tense and past participle: '''bid''') ''(intransitive)'' (''card games'') to announce one's goal, before starting play
#(Past tense and past participle: '''bid''') ''(transitive)'' to offer as a price
Ex:''She '''bid''' £2000 for the Persian carpet.''
#(Past tense and past participle: '''bid''') ''(transitive)'' (''card games'') to announce one's goal, before starting play
An offer at an auction
(''ultimate frisbee'') a (failed) attempt to receive or intercept a pass
Ex:''Nice '''bid'''!''
first person singular present tense of bidden; to pray
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DALSA Corporation (TSX: DSA), an international leader in high performance digital imaging and semiconductors, announced today that it has received approval from the Toronto Stock Exchange (the "TSX") to acquire for cancellation, by way of normal course issuer bid (the "Bid"), up to 951,334 Common Shares of the Company, which,...
FEW TAKEOVER BATTLES focus on personalities as much as Northrop Grumman's bid for fellow defense contractor TRW. The $5.9 billion stock offer was occasioned by the sudden departure of TRW CEO David Cote in February-to take on a bigger job running Honeywell. Indeed, news reports paint a picture of a...
PARIS -- Coca-Cola Co.'s second bid to acquire Orangina has been referred to France's competition council, which rejected the initial bid on the grounds that the deal would allow the company to dominate distribution to cafes, hotels and restaurants.
The General Accounting Office GAO has ruled that the use of marked photocopies of a Corps' bid schedule rendered the bid "ambiguous and nonresponsive." GAO ruled that the Corps was correct in rejecting the bid. The General Accounting Office GAO has ruled that the...
TORONTO -- Noranda Inc. (TSX:NRD)(NYSE:NRD) today announced that it had mailed an issuer bid circular to its common shareholders and a take-over bid circular to common shareholders of Falconbridge Limited, in connection with Noranda's previously announced issuer bid for up to 63.4 million Noranda common shares...
Nov 23, 2006 (The Australian Financial Review - ABIX via COMTEX) -- The Macquarie Bank-led consortium making a bid for Qantas Airways may be required to prove the bid is in Australia's national interests. Formal talks on the bid are scheduled to co Nov...
BOSTON -- pSivida Corp. (NASDAQ:PSDVV)(ASX:PVA) today announced that it received notification from the NASDAQ Stock Market that it had regained compliance with Marketplace Rule 4450a(5) the Rule relating to the maintenance of a minimum $1.00 bid price of the company's American Depository Shares ADSs. The company had been notified in...
MONTGOMERYVILLE, Pa. -- PhotoMedex, Inc. (Nasdaq:PHMD) announced today that it received notification from The Nasdaq Stock Market ("Nasdaq") on November 19, 2007 that the Company was not in compliance with the $1.00 minimum bid price requirement for continued listing on Nasdaq's Global Market exchange under Marketplace Rule 4450a(5). Such a...
HMV, owner of bookseller Waterstones, has made a 440p-a-share bid for book retailer Ottakar's. Ottakar's independent directors are recommending the bid, which follows an earlier management-backed bid at 400p a share. HMV, owner of bookseller Waterstones, has made a 440p-a-share bid for book...
SAN DIEGO -- iVOW, Inc. (NASDAQ:IVOW), a provider of disease management services for the treatment of chronic and morbid obesity, announced today that it received a Nasdaq Staff Deficiency Letter stating that iVOW has failed to comply with the minimum bid price requirement for continued listing set forth in Marketplace...
RBS-led group makes hostile bid for ABN Amro, LaSalle Netherlands-based ABN Amro Holding N.V. said Monday that it received a hostile takeover bid of $96.4 billion and a related bid of $24.5 billion for its Chicago-based LaSalle Bank Corp. subsidiar RBS-led group makes hostile...
PeopleSoft Inc.'s board has unanimously rejected Oracle Corp.'s $6.3 billion cash offer, claiming that it is still too low and raises antitrust concerns. The offer is a raise from Oracle's earlier bid of $5.1 billion. PeopleSoft argued in a statement that the revised bid still "undervalues the company based on...
Shares of Warner-Lambert Co. have been steadily increasing due to the growing sentiment that Pfizer, Inc. is not only sincere about its $82.4 billion allstock bid for the company, but will raise the bid, if necessary. What led to some confusion as to the seriousness of Pfizer's offer was the...
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