noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADJECTIVE
competitive
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No prices are written down and there is no competitive bidding .
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The agreement was cancelled because it should have been put out to competitive bidding .
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Its new approach of competitive bidding has already galvanized towns and cities into bringing forward imaginative proposals for regeneration.
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We will continue to extend City Challenge and allocate a greater proportion of resources by competitive bidding .
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But there is scope for competitive bidding in less ambitious projects.
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Those factors give them a competitive advantage in bidding on contracts.
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New York publishers echo accusations of a conflict of interest in the choice of Knopf without prior competitive bidding .
■ VERB
need
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Benjamin and I needed no second bidding .
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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The contract will be renewed with no bidding .
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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Had he grown to think she would meekly do his bidding ?
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If he commanded then people jumped to do his bidding .
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The bidding continued and Kilpatrick stayed with it, raising it to £7,000 and later to £8,000.
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This is also tied up with the new contract bidding system, about which you may have read in the press.
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We had our limit and the bidding was going up and up.
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We will continue to extend City Challenge and allocate a greater proportion of resources by competitive bidding .