VERB
- to bid for more tricks than one can expect to win,
- bid more than the object is worth
NOUN
- (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)
- a bid that is higher than preceding bids
How To Use overbid In A Sentence
- The Commission felt the company were overbidding and gave the franchise to their competitors instead.
- However, anecdotal stories are now appearing, suggesting that many people have figured this out, and overbidding for the sake of ‘winning’ is becoming less common.
- But not as terrible as the woman on the Price Is Right must feel, the one who overbid her showcase by just $100. Andy McDonald: 10 Reasons why Being Unemployed may Work for You
- A joint venture allows developers the freedom from worry about who will fund a project or if they overbid then who will come in with equity, he said. Roads Pave the Way for Private Equity in India
- So canny employers are often willing to pay the finest foreign talent even more than they pay local talent - not underbidding for foreign talent, as nativists fear, but often overbidding.
- The credit selloff looks like an overbid market returning to rational pricing," analysts at Amherst Securities Group LP wrote in a report this week. Values of CMBS Turn DownwardProperty Pulse
- But this guy overbid me by something like 50% of my maximum bid.
- Hopefully, there will be an overbid so there will be more money available to pay these administrative claims," said Stephen Karotkin of Weil, Gotshal & Manges, a lawyer for Blockbuster. Blockbuster Avoids Liquidation
- Media hype and too much wine at dinner may lead a wealthy collector to overbid for a work at auction (but there must have been an underbidder).
- They were overbid by a Japanese firm.