bid up

verb

bade up or bid up; bidden up or bid up also bade up; bidding up; bids up

: to raise the price of (something, such as property at auction) by a succession of offers

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Stock futures turned higher, while traders bid up the price of government bonds. —

Rob Wile, NBC News, 13 Nov. 2024 However, if the company can invest more in AI and get faster growth and higher margins in return, investors will bid up Alphabet stock. —

Peter Cohan, Forbes, 30 Oct. 2024 Users were then invited to trade Bitcoin for magic bean tokens in order to bid up the price of individuals on the network (yes, the premise was for people to trade like commodities based on their popularity and behavior). —

Jeff John Roberts, Fortune, 27 Sep. 2024 That’s music to the ears of America’s billionaire builders, and the investors who have bid up their public share prices even in the face of sky-high home values and crushing interest rates. —

Richard J. Chang, Forbes, 23 Sep. 2024 See all Example Sentences for bid up