Bidding vs Payment - What's the difference?
bidding | payment |
That which one is bidden to do; a command.
* 1868 , Fulwar William Fowle, Sermons preached in the cathedral church of Salisbury (page 172)
The act of placing a bid.
* Rowland E. Prothero, English Farming, Past and Present (page 322)
(uncountable) The act of paying.
(countable) A sum of money paid in exchange for goods or services.
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As nouns the difference between bidding and payment
is that bidding is that which one is bidden to do; a command while payment is (uncountable) the act of paying.As a verb bidding
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(en noun)- 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."
- Their biddings forced existing owners into ruinous competition; they mortgaged their ancestral acres to buy up outlying properties or round off their boundaries.
payment
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The Mirror and the Lamp, passage=“[…] This is Mr. Churchill, who, as you are aware, is good enough to come to us for his diaconate, and, as we hope, for much longer; and being a gentleman of independent means, he declines to take any payment .” Saying this Walden rubbed his hands together and smiled contentedly.}}
