bid up

verb

bade up or bid up; bidden up or bid up also bade up; bidding up; bids up

: to raise the price of (something, such as property at auction) by a succession of offers

Examples of bid up in a Sentence

Recent Examples on the Web That’s music to the ears of America’s billionaire builders, and the investors who have bid up their public share prices even in the face of sky-high home values and crushing interest rates. —

Richard J. Chang, Forbes, 23 Sep. 2024 The buying has bid up prices and forced yields down to near record lows. —

Milton Ezrati, Forbes, 11 Sep. 2024 In 2022, when investors were bidding up prices for digital collectibles, Trump rolled out his first NFT collection, a group of digital trading cards that represented the former president as an astronaut, race car driver, cowboy and superhero. —

Aimee Picchi, CBS News, 16 Aug. 2024 And with newcomers arriving and bidding up properties, prices for a single-family home in the Las Vegas Valley hit a record high in May. —

Francine Kiefer, The Christian Science Monitor, 17 July 2024 See all Example Sentences for bid up

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