"bidding" meaning in English

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      "ipa": "/ˈbɪdɪŋ/"
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      "word": "bidding box"
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      "word": "do someone's bidding"
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          "text": "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.\"",
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          "ref": "1912, Rowland Prothero, 1st Baron Ernle, English Farming, Past and Present, page 322",
          "text": "Their biddings forced existing owners into ruinous competition; they mortgaged their ancestral acres to buy up outlying properties or round off their boundaries.",
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        "The act of placing a bid."
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