BIDDING


Meaning of BIDDING in English

1.

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

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

PHRASE

2.

If you say that someone does another person’s ~, 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 ~!

= obey

PHRASE: V inflects disapproval

3.

see also bid

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