{
  "id": "bid.offer",
  "term": "bid",
  "sense": "offer",
  "pos": "verb",
  "status": "review",
  "level": 9,
  "arena": "lexicon",
  "domain": "general",
  "style": null,
  "definition": "to give an amount for a thing in order to get it",
  "folk_gloss": null,
  "emergence": {
    "components": [
      "give.transfer",
      "amount.quantity",
      "get.acquisition",
      "order.arrangement"
    ],
    "interaction": "give.transfer and amount.quantity combine under a narrow order to propose a price for a thing, enabling acquisition",
    "novel_properties": [
      "proposed exchange rate",
      "conditional transfer initiation",
      "valuation as bid"
    ]
  },
  "examples": [
    {
      "text": "In 2021, SpaceX bid $2.9 billion for a single NASA contract to modify Starship for lunar landing.",
      "domain": "economics"
    },
    {
      "text": "At the 2017 Sotheby's auction, a bidder offered $450.3 million for Leonardo da Vinci's 'Salvator Mundi'.",
      "domain": "institutions"
    },
    {
      "text": "A trader's algorithm sent a bid for 10,000 shares of Tesla at $250.50 on NASDAQ at 9:30 AM on June 10, 2022.",
      "domain": "computing"
    }
  ],
  "relations": [
    {
      "id": "action.deed",
      "note": "is-a",
      "type": "is-a"
    }
  ],
  "used_by": [],
  "forms": [
    "bid",
    "bidded",
    "bidding",
    "bids"
  ],
  "closed": true,
  "provenance": {
    "author": "openrouter:openai/gpt-oss-120b",
    "date": "2026-07-29",
    "confidence": 0.6,
    "reconciled": {
      "by": "openrouter:qwen/qwen3-235b-a22b-2507",
      "date": "2026-07-31",
      "changed": "components",
      "note": "Added get.acquisition and order.arrangement to components as they are constitutive: bidding inherently involves attempting to acquire and occurs within a constrained sequence or structure."
    }
  },
  "canonical": "https://emergencemachine.com/tools/lexicon/what-is-the-meaning-of-bid.offer"
}