"limit bid" meaning in All languages combined

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Noun [English]

Forms: limit bids [plural]
Head templates: {{en-noun}} limit bid (plural limit bids)
  1. An offer to buy in an auction for any value up to a specified maximum.
    Sense id: en-limit_bid-en-noun-IMIVSeQh
  2. (bridge) A bid that describes the bidders hand fairly precisely (indicating a small range of high card points and some indication of shape.) Categories (topical): Bridge
    Sense id: en-limit_bid-en-noun-mjSusPtw Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header, Pages with 1 entry, Pages with entries Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 39 61 Disambiguation of Pages with 1 entry: 30 70 Disambiguation of Pages with entries: 30 70 Topics: bridge, games

Inflected forms

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          "ref": "1902, The Collector - Issues 160-171, page 29:",
          "text": "I am still inclined to think the London auctioneers can be trusted, but I have little faith in the Germans. If you put a $20 limit bid by accident on a $1 autograph at a German auction, you are pretty sure to get it at $20. Like some other auctioneers, if they know your limit they will supply any amount of competition, honest or otherwise.",
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          "ref": "2007, B. Espen Eckbo, Handbook of Corporate Finance:",
          "text": "Consistent with this conjecture, Cornelli and Goldreich show that investors submitting price-limited bids receive larger allocations when the book contains fewer limit bids.",
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        {
          "ref": "2013, George Kleinman, Trading Commodities and Financial Futures:",
          "text": "If a market again trades under the limit bid price or above the limit offered, go with the flow. These are trades that possess reasonable risk, because they indicate the previous support or resistance is now absent.",
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          "ref": "2009, Eric v.d. Luft, How I Became a Life Master Playing the Weak No Trump, page 18:",
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          "ref": "2011, David Bird, Bridge Made Easy: Flash, page 5:",
          "text": "When the responder made a limit bid, the opener may already be in a position to name the final contract.",
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          "ref": "2012, Harry Lampert, The Fun Way to Serious Bridge, page 62:",
          "text": "If you raise a partner's opening suit bid from one to two, it is also a limit bid, showing six to nine points.",
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        "(bridge) A bid that describes the bidders hand fairly precisely (indicating a small range of high card points and some indication of shape.)"
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          "ref": "2007, B. Espen Eckbo, Handbook of Corporate Finance:",
          "text": "Consistent with this conjecture, Cornelli and Goldreich show that investors submitting price-limited bids receive larger allocations when the book contains fewer limit bids.",
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          "ref": "2013, George Kleinman, Trading Commodities and Financial Futures:",
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