overbid
- n a bid that is higher than preceding bids
- n (bridge) a bid that is higher than your opponent's bid (especially when your partner has not bid at all and your bid exceeds the value of your hand)
- v to bid for more tricks than one can expect to win,
- v bid more than the object is worth
- Executives whine about straying advertisers, overbid on sports and berate the Nielsens.
- In their place is a new generation who overbid their competitors in efficiency, of which Henry Ford is an example.
- He returned quietly to Berlin last week from a tour of the Balkans on which he notably overbid the British and French in extending creditsi.