bidding
Idioms do someone''s bidding, to submit to someone''s orders; perform services for someone: After he was promoted to vice president at the bank, he expected everyone around him to do his
command and order imply authority and usually some degree of formality and impersonality. command stresses official exercise of authority. order may suggest peremptory or arbitrary
an order; command (often in the phrases do or follow the bidding of, at someone''s bidding)
do someone''s bidding, to submit to someone''s orders; perform services for someone. After he was promoted to vice president at the bank, he expected everyone around him to do his bidding.
BIDDING meaning: 1. the act of offering to pay a particular amount of money for something, by different people: 2. Learn more.
A bid is an offer to buy something for a specified sum of money. It can also mean a proposal to complete an amount of work or service in return for payment. People make bids at auctions,
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