Definition of Overbidding

1. Verb. (present participle of overbid) ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Overbidding

1. overbid [v] - See also: overbid

Lexicographical Neighbors of Overbidding

overbeats
overbed
overbejeweled
overbend
overbending
overbends
overbent
overbet
overbets
overbetted
overbetting
overbid
overbidden
overbidder
overbidders
overbidding (current term)
overbide
overbids
overbig
overbill
overbilled
overbilling
overbills
overbind
overbinds
overbite
overbites
overbitter
overbleach
overbleached

Literary usage of Overbidding

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Lower Canada Reports =: Décisions Des Tribunaux Du Bas-Canada by Simon Lelièvre (1855)
"3o. La ventilation doit être homologuée avant que la distribution des deniers déposés puisse être faite. overbidding, Liability of Vendor and Vendee. ..."

2. The Fine Points of Auction Bridge by Florence Irwin (1912)
"A Warning against overbidding THERE is no fault as common in Auction as overbidding; it is the rock which wrecks nine- tenths of the lost hands. ..."

3. Auction Developments by Milton C. Work (1913)
"overbidding PARTNER WHEN HE HAS BEEN DOUBLED There are, perhaps, few topics upon which all Auction writers and expert players agree, but 1 See table, ..."

4. The Upper Canada Law Journal and Municipal and Local Courts' Gazette by William S. Hein & Company (1860)
"There was an overbidding of £4.000, the largest sum ever known in that character. Nevertheless, the lords commissioners would not have accepted that sum as ..."

5. Reports of Cases Argued and Determined in the High Court of Chancery: During by Great Britain Court of Chancery, Edward Thurlow Thurlow, Alexander Wedderburn Rosslyn, Jonathan Cogswell Perkins (1844)
"BIDDINGS are opened for benefit of the suitor and estate, not of the purchaser; as where he was too late, and the overbidding is small, (a) MOTION to open a ..."

6. Reports of Cases Argued and Determined in the High Court of Chancery: From by Francis Vesey, Great Britain Court of Chancery (1827)
"The foundation of the application was an overbidding of above 4000/. and that ... The overbidding, offered now, exceeds one-fourth part of the original sum. ..."

7. A National Budget System by Brookings Institution, Institute for Government Research (1919)
"By corporations outside overbidding the Government ? Mr. TAYLOR. Mr. Secretary, your belief is, then, that we need я law to compel, for instance, ..."

8. Journal of Horticulture, Cottage Gardener and Country Gentlemen (1876)
"An antagonism of forces—a clashing of energies—an electioneering, overbidding, march-stealing system of procedure would seem to be pervading the вопя of men ..."

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