BIDDING


Meaning of BIDDING in English

transcription, транскрипция: [ bɪdɪŋ ]

1.

If you do something at someone’s bidding , you do it because they have asked you to do it. ( FORMAL )

At his bidding, the delegates rose and sang the national anthem.

PHRASE

2.

If you say that someone does another person’s bidding , you disapprove of the fact that they do exactly what the other person asks them to do, even when they do not want to. ( FORMAL )

She is very clever at getting men to do her bidding!

= obey

PHRASE : V inflects [ disapproval ]

3.

see also bid

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