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Bidder vs Bidding - What's the difference?

bidder | bidding |

As nouns the difference between bidder and bidding

is that bidder is someone who bids, eg at an auction while bidding is that which one is bidden to do; a command.

As a verb bidding is

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bidder

English

Noun

(en noun)
  • Someone who bids, e.g. at an auction
    • The highest bidder shall get the house.

    Anagrams

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    bidding

    English

    Verb

    (head)

    • Noun

    (en noun)
  • That which one is bidden to do; a command.
  • * 1868 , Fulwar William Fowle, Sermons preached in the cathedral church of Salisbury (page 172)
    • Do their biddings , and they will lead you to "whatsoever things are true, whatsoever things are honest, whatsoever things are just, whatsoever things are pure, whatsoever things are lovely, whatsoever things are of good report."
  • The act of placing a bid.
  • * Rowland E. Prothero, English Farming, Past and Present (page 322)
    • Their biddings forced existing owners into ruinous competition; they mortgaged their ancestral acres to buy up outlying properties or round off their boundaries.