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Bidding vs Proposal - What's the difference?

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Bidding is a synonym of proposal.


As nouns the difference between bidding and proposal

is that bidding is that which one is bidden to do; a command while proposal is that which is proposed, or propounded for consideration or acceptance; a scheme or design; terms or conditions proposed; offer; as, to make proposals for a treaty of peace; to offer proposals for erecting a building; to make proposals of marriage.

As a verb bidding

is .

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.

    proposal

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • That which is proposed, or propounded for consideration or acceptance; a scheme or design; terms or conditions proposed; offer; as, to make proposals for a treaty of peace; to offer proposals for erecting a building; to make proposals of marriage.
  • (legal) The offer by a party of what he has in view as to an intended business transaction, which, with acceptance, constitutes a contract.
  • Synonyms

    * proffer * tender * overture

    Derived terms

    * counterproposal * modest proposal * promposal