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
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Investors Seeking Crash Protection Investors are bidding up the price of protection against a stock market crash.
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Peter Cohan, Forbes, 5 Mar. 2025
Everything from Big Tech stocks that have been bid up amid the artificial intelligence frenzy to airlines to metals companies dropped.
—Stan Choe The Associated Press, arkansasonline.com, 22 Feb. 2025
But this run of speculation has bid up the price of housing and left people who actually need a place to live in the lurch.
—Patrick Chovanec, Foreign Affairs, 18 Dec. 2011
Everything from Big Tech stocks that have been bid up amid the artificial-intelligence frenzy to airlines to metals companies fell.
—CBS News, 21 Feb. 2025
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Peter Cohan, Forbes, 5 Mar. 2025
Everything from Big Tech stocks that have been bid up amid the artificial intelligence frenzy to airlines to metals companies dropped.
—Stan Choe The Associated Press, arkansasonline.com, 22 Feb. 2025
But this run of speculation has bid up the price of housing and left people who actually need a place to live in the lurch.
—Patrick Chovanec, Foreign Affairs, 18 Dec. 2011
Everything from Big Tech stocks that have been bid up amid the artificial-intelligence frenzy to airlines to metals companies fell.
—CBS News, 21 Feb. 2025
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“Bid up.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/bid%20up. Accessed 10 Mar. 2025.
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