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Overbid

Acceptable For Game Play - US & UK word lists

This word is acceptable for play in the US & UK dictionaries that are being used in the following games:

The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition

v. To outbid (a person) for something, as at an auction.

v. Games To bid more than the value of (one's hand in bridge, for example).

verb-intransitive. To bid higher than the actual value of something.

n. A bid higher than another bid.

Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License

v. To make an excessively high offer to pay or accept a price.

v. To announce a goal, before starting play, that exceeds the goal actually achieved.

n. An excessively high offer to pay or accept a price.

n. The announcement of a goal, before starting play, that exceeds the goal actually achieved.

the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English

v. To bid or offer beyond, or in excess of.

The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

To outbid; overpay; do more than pay for.

To bid more than a just price; offer more than an equivalent.

WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

n. a bid that is higher than preceding bids

v. bid more than the object is worth

v. to bid for more tricks than one can expect to win,

n. (bridge) a bid that is higher than your opponent's bid (especially when your partner has not bid at all and your bid exceeds the value of your hand)

Word Usage

"a compromise, a "modified Vickrey" where if the overbid is more than $10, the winning team would get the player for the cost of the second-highest bid, plus"

Verb Form

overbidding overbids

Hypernym

Words that are more generic or abstract

tender bid offer call bidding

Variant

overbidding overbidden