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Asked today whether obtaining finance for the bid was a problem, an official Xstrata spokesperson said the company had no concerns around financing the bid.

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  1. transitive verb To issue a command to; direct.
  2. transitive verb To utter (a greeting or salutation).
  3. transitive verb To invite to attend; summon.
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  • Rusoro said the bid represents a value of $1.08 per Gold Reserve share, a premium of 140 per cent on the stock's closing price on Dec. 12, the last trading day before the bid was announced and a premium of 209 per cent on the stock's 30-day volume-weighted average price. —  Brandon Sun Online - Top Stories
  • Government auditors decided the protests had merit and blocked the award of the contract to Northrop Grumman and an affiliate of the European Aeronautic Defense and Space Company, known as EADS, even though their bid was almost $3 billion lower than Boeing's. —  news | WM | http://www.starnewsonline.com
  • If the bid is approved by the council, the contractor will start construction on April 15 and the work will wrap up June 15, Kinney said. —  statesmanjournal.com - Top Stories
  • Mark Cuban, owner of the National Basketball Association team in Dallas and an early Cubs bidder, said on his blog on Tuesday that the biggest challenges to his bid were the financial structure of a potential bid and the impact of the weak economy. —  pfblogs.org: The Ad-Free Personal Finance Blogs Aggregator
  • "If there is no bid which is at least 90 per cent of the highest bid, then the highest bidder will be declared the successful bidder," the note said seeking to modify the earlier bid conditions wherein there was no provision for open auction. —  The Financial Express
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bids ·  candidate ·  bidder ·  bidding ·  offer ·  proposal ·  contest ·  move ·  win ·  vote ·  campaign ·  purchase
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  1. Middle English bidden, to ask, command (from Old English biddan; see gwhedh- in Indo-European roots) and Middle English beden, to offer, proclaim (from Old English bēodan; see bheudh- in Indo-European roots).

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  1. Under this form two verbs, orig. distinct in form and sense, have been confounded from the 12th century or earlier: (1) Bid, ask, pray, from Middle English bidden (preterit bad, plural beden, baden, past participle beden, biden), ask, pray, invite, wish, and also (by confusion with bid) command, from Anglo-Saxon biddan (preterit bœd, plural bǣdon, past participle beden), ask, pray, invite, in some cases equivalent to command, = Old Saxon biddian = OFries. bidda =D. bidden = Old High German bittan, Middle High German G. bitten = Icelandic bidhja = Swedish bedja —Danish bede = Gothic (Moesogothic) bidjan (preterit bath, plural bedum, past participle bidans) (cf. Gothic (Moesogothic) bidagwa, a beggar, and Anglo-Saxon bedecian, beg: see beg), perhaps = Greek √*πιθ (orig. *φιθ) in πείθειν, πιθεῖν, persuade, move by entreaty, mid. πείθεσθαι, πιθέσθαι, be persuaded, obey, trust, = Latin fīdere, trust. Hence, from the Anglo-Saxon, English bead; from the L., English faith, fidelity, affy, affidavit, confide, confident, infidel, perfidy, etc. (2) Bid, command, order, direct, propose, offer, etc., from Middle English beden, beoden (which would regularly give English *beed or *bead), command, order, offer, announce, also invite (preterit bead, bed, bead, plural beden, boden, past participle boden), from Anglo-Saxon beódan (preterit beád, plural budon, past participle boden), command, order, offer, announce, threaten, etc., = Old Saxon biodan = OFries. biada = Dutch bieden = Old High German biotan, Middle High German G. bieten = Icelandic bjōdha = Swedish bjuda = Danish byde = Goth, biudan (preterit bauth, plural budum, past participle budans; only in comp., anabiudan, command, faurbiudan = English forbid), command, offer, announce, etc., = Greek √*πυθ (orig. *φυθ), in πυνθάνεσθαι, πνθέσθαι, learn by asking, ask, = Sanskrit √ budh (orig. *bhudh), be awake, understand (see Buddha); cf. Old Bulgarian budetĭ, be awake. From Anglo-Saxon beódan come boda, English bode, a messenger, bodian, English bode, announce, portend, Anglo-Saxon bydel, English beadle, etc.: see bode, bode, beadle. While some senses of bid are obviously those of Anglo-Saxon biddan, and others obviously those of Anglo-Saxon beódan, no formal separation can conveniently be made. The modern forms correspond to those of Anglo-Saxon biddan, the senses chiefly to those of Anglo-Saxon beódan.
 

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