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Definition of Overbids
1. overbid [v] - See also: overbid
Lexicographical Neighbors of Overbids
Literary usage of Overbids
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Auction Developments by Milton C. Work (1913)
"... must show Hearts and four Spades Royals, as one Heart, value 8, overbids three
Spades, value 6, and one Royal, value 9, overbids four Spades, value 8. ..."
2. Lawyers' Reports Annotated by Lawyers Co-operative Publishing Company (1918)
"And the administrator or executor overbids all persons in attendance can likewise
be of no avail.5 Such a sale is fraudulent the fact that the sale is ..."
3. The New Englander by William Lathrop Kingsley (1881)
"... overbids the tenant. A reform in the law for the transfer of real estate,
rendering it more simple, might overcome this obstacle to the establishment of ..."
4. New Englander and Yale Review by Edward Royall Tyler, William Lathrop Kingsley, George Park Fisher, Timothy Dwight (1881)
"To the one who buys the entire estate, however, this expense reduces itself to
a small percentage of the sum paid, and in consequence, he overbids the ..."
5. A Practical and Elementary Abridgment of the Cases Argued and Determined in by Charles Petersdorff, Elisha Hammond (1831)
"KB 3 TR 592. A majority Under the 9 Geo. 1. c. 7. s. 4, which enables the
churchwardens and overbids the seers for the poor, with the consent of the ..."
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