biddable
adjective
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A biddable individual is someone you can issue an order to—that is, someone who will do your bidding. The word dates to the late 18th century, and currently our earliest evidence for it is a quote in the Scottish National Dictionary. There are a number of words in English that do what biddable does. Tractable, amenable, and docile are three of them. Biddable is often applied to children and indicates a ready, constant inclination to follow orders, requests, and suggestions. Tractable suggests characteristics that make for easy guiding, leading, ordering, or managing; its antonym intractable (as in "intractable problems") is more common. Amenable indicates a disposition to be agreeable or complaisant as well as a lack of assertive independence. Docile can stress a disposition to submit, either due to guidance and control or to imposition and oppression.
Examples of biddable in a Sentence
Sara Fischer, Axios, 8 Apr. 2025
Disney is boosting its advertising capabilities for live events, with third-party partnerships, a new certification program for live sports and entertainment as well as biddable deals for live sports.
—Dade Hayes, Deadline, 6 Jan. 2025
The technical review is meant to evaluate the structure’s design to ensure that a project is biddable, buildable, cost-effective and maintainable.
—Sherry Greenfield, Baltimore Sun, 6 Dec. 2024
Ferro says advertisers have expanded access to programmatic biddable inventory across 30 different demand-side platforms that give access to both national and local-market advertisers.
—Brian Steinberg, Variety, 7 Dec. 2023
Ferro says that as of this week, biddable programmatic inventory is live on the platform, and that the company has expanded its targeting capabilities to include demos (like age and gender) but also geography and Disney Select Audience Segments.
—Alex Weprin, The Hollywood Reporter, 27 Oct. 2023
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“Biddable.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/biddable. Accessed 31 Oct. 2025.
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