noun
- A Chadic language spoken in northern Nigeria.
verb
- Propose a payment.
- usage: "The Swiss dealer offered $2 million for the painting"
- Invoke upon.
- usage: "wish you a nice evening"; "bid farewell"
- Ask for or request earnestly.
- usage: "The prophet bid all people to become good persons"
- Make a demand, as for a card or a suit or a show of hands.
- usage: "He called his trump"
- Make a serious effort to attain something.
- usage: "His campaign bid for the attention of the poor population"
- synonyms: bid
- Ask someone in a friendly way to do something.
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