bidding
Idioms do someone''s bidding, to submit to someone''s orders; perform services for someone: After he was promoted to vice president at the bank, he expected everyone around him to do his
BIDDING definition: 1. the act of offering to pay a particular amount of money for something, by different people: 2. Learn more.
command and order imply authority and usually some degree of formality and impersonality. command stresses official exercise of authority. order may suggest peremptory or arbitrary
BIDDING meaning: 1 : the act of offering to pay a particular amount of money for something the act of making bids at an auction; 2 : the act of offering to do a job for a particular price
There are seven meanings listed in OED''s entry for the noun bidding, two of which are labelled obsolete. See ''Meaning & use'' for definitions, usage, and quotation evidence.
an order; command (often in the phrases do or follow the bidding of, at someone''s bidding)
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