Misere or misère ( French for " destitution "; equivalent terms in other languages include bettel, contrabola, devole, null, pobre ) is a bid in various card games, and the player who bids misere undertakes to win no tricks or as few as possible, usually at no trump, in the round to be played.

An open or lay down misere is a 500 bid where the player is so sure of losing every trick that they undertake to do so with their cards placed face-up on the table.

Consequently, ' lay down misere ' is Australian gambling slang for a predicted easy victory.

* Lay down misere: An absolute certainty.

This has to be planned in advance as if there is no such space partners have to bid a usually unmakeable slam contract.

One of the players, usually the player to the left of the dealer, or the dealer themselves, is obligated to open with a first bid.

A house rule often used with this style of bidding is that a player or partnership must have a minimum number of meld points ( usually 20 or 200 depending on point scales ) in order to bid, and if it is discovered that they do not, a mis-bid is declared and the team's contract is null, with or without a penalty.

At charity auctions, bid sheets usually have a fixed starting amount, predetermined bid increments, and a " guaranteed bid " amount which works the same as a " buy now " amount.

Often referred to as a " Constructability Review ", the process usually occurs prior to the plans being put out for bid.

Failure to attend usually results in a rejected bid

A bid of the fourth suit at the 2 level by responder is a one-round force, usually asking opener to bid no trumps with a stopper in the fourth suit.

The Little Caesars Pizza Bowl features a bowl-eligible team from the Mid-American Conference ( usually the winner of the MAC Championship Game, although that team is not required to accept the bid ; prior to the formation of the bowl the MAC champion earned an automatic bid to the Las Vegas Bowl ) playing a bowl-eligible team from the Big Ten Conference.

Thus, it is important to recognize the situations when a trump opening lead is called for – usually, they arise when both declarer and dummy have bid other suits but found the trump fit in the third one.

It is the main channel from Living TV Group and usually has the highest ratings, recently better than that of Sky1 which strengthens its bid to become " the 6th Channel ".

A late bluff, on the other hand, is usually less voluntary ; the player is often unwilling to challenge a bid, but as a higher bid is even more likely to be incorrect it is even less appealing.

The level of player's bid is based on the strength of their hand, usually estimated by counting the points within it.

A job requiring a payment & performance bond will usually require a bid bond, to bid the job.

* b. i. d or bid, bis in die, Latin for " twice daily "; usually refers to medication dosage.

A fab shop will bid on a job, usually based on the engineering drawings, and if awarded the contract will build the product.

The project is usually awarded to the lowest bid by a qualified general contractor.

In strong markets, general contractors will be able to be selective about which projects to bid, but in lean times, the desire for work usually forces the low bidder of each trade to be selected.

His first attempt at public office was an unsuccessful bid for the Democratic nomination for the Texas Railroad Commission, which regulates the oil and natural gas industries, rather than the railroads as the name indicates.

In contract bridge, a splinter bid is a convention whereby a double jump bid in a side-suit indicates a trump fit and a singleton or void in the suit bid.

If not, and the current bid indicates that there will be a trump suit, then the player now bidding may better the current bid by claiming the same number of books but now bidding that there will be no trump suit.

If the current bid already indicates there will be no trump suit, that bid may only be bettered by indicating a higher number of books.

In some variations, a bid which indicates that there will be a trump suit, and that higher-ranking cards will win, can also be bettered by bidding the same number of books and indicating that there will be a trump suit and that lower-ranking cards will win.

He " had watched the progress of the famine policy of the Government, and could see nothing in it but a machinery, deliberately devised, and skillfully worked, for the entire subjugation of the island — the slaughter of portion of the people, and the pauperization of the rest ," and he had therefore " come to the conclusion that the whole system ought to be met with resistance at every point, and the means for this would be extremely simple, namely, a combination among the people to obstruct and render impossible the transport and shipment of Irish provisions ; to refuse all aid to its removal ; to destroy the highways ; to prevent everyone, by intimidation, from daring to bid for grain and cattle if brought to auction under ' distress ' ( a method of obstruction which put an end to Church tithes before ); in short, to offer a passive resistance universally ; but occasionally, when opportunity served, to try the steel.

Mitchel had come to the view that " the whole system ought to be met with resistance at every point ; and the means for this would be extremely simple ; namely, a combination amongst the people to obstruct and render impossible the transport and shipment of Irish provisions ; to refuse all aid in its removal ; to destroy the highways, to prevent everyone, by intimidation, from daring to bid for grain or cattle if brought to auction under distress ;" ( a method of obstruction which had put an end to tithes before ) " in short, to offer a passive resistance universally, but occasionally, when opportunity served, to try the steel ".

In 1847, when he severed his connection with The Nation, he says, " I had watched the progress of the famine policy of the Government, and could see nothing in it but a machinery, deliberately devised, and skillfully worked, for the entire subjugation of the island — the slaughter of portion of the people, and the pauperization of the rest ," and he had therefore " come to the conclusion that the whole system ought to be met with resistance at every point, and the means for this would be extremely simple, namely, a combination among the people to obstruct and render impossible the transport and shipment of Irish provisions ; to refuse all aid to its removal ; to destroy the highways ; to prevent everyone, by intimidation, from daring to bid for grain and cattle if brought to auction under ' distress ' ( a method of obstruction which put an end to Church tithes before ); in short, to offer a passive resistance universally ; but occasionally, when opportunity served, to try the steel.

Amongst his extremely rare stamps were the unique Treskilling Yellow of Sweden and the 1856 one-cent " Black on Magenta " of British Guiana, which he bought in 1878 for 150 pounds sterling and which after his death was sold at the third bid of his collection, in 1924, at Paris for 36 000 US dollars.

Despite the extremely large sell order, J-com's stock price dropped by no more than 15 % from its opening price to its low, ¥ 572, 000 ($ 4, 767 ), due to a large bid supporting the market as well as numerous day-traders taking advantage of the market imbalance, and the stock closed higher at ¥ 772, 000 ($ 6, 430 ) per share.

According to reports from friends, Doern became extremely depressed after failing in his bid to become Mayor of Winnipeg.

While they are extremely diligent in using their surgical skills among themselves they are also careful to share them among the people around their homes, possibly in a bid to make sure that when the torch-bearing mob comes along to kill the latest freak of science the resident Igor will be spared.

The extremely rare auction closed on 25 June 2009 with a final bid of US $ 1, 875.

Eventually it became clear to me, partly with the aid of another schizophrenic patient who could point out my condescension to me somewhat more directly, that this man, with his condescending, `` You're welcome '', was very accurately personifying an element of obnoxious condescension which had been present in my own demeanor, over these months, on each of these occasions when I had bid him good-bye with the consoling note, each time, that the healing Christ would be stooping to dispense this succor to the poor sufferer again on the morrow.

But some residents believe the poor weather during Super Bowl week negatively impacted the city's chances of hosting another Super Bowl, including the bid it lost for the 2009 Super Bowl.

In 1936, by which time unemployment was lower, 200 unemployed men made a highly publicized march from Jarrow to London in a bid to show the plight of the industrial poor.

For several years, the company's retail side had difficulties competing with specialist book and music chains on one side and large supermarkets on the other: this led to poor financial performance, and a takeover bid in 2004 by the Permira group, which fell through.

The various trim and body options that were originally exclusive to the Magnum made their way over to the Viva, producing the top of the line Viva GLS, in a bid to shore up the increasingly poor sales of the model.

In her bid for reelection in 1944, Caraway placed a poor fourth in the Democratic primary, losing her Senate seat to freshman congressman J. William Fulbright, the young, dynamic former president of the University of Arkansas who had already gained a national reputation.

However, poor market reception to the deal saw the Royal Bank of Scotland bid for the National Westminster, and the merger deal collapsed.

Froese was defeated by Progressive Conservative candidate Arnold Brown in the 1973 election, and finished a poor fourth in a bid for re-election four years later.

The failure of this bid and poor crowd averages has put this redevelopment in doubt.

After his unsuccessful bid for the Democratic nomination in 1984, Jackson attempted to build a broad base of support among groups that " were hurt by Reagan administration policies "-racial minorities, the poor, small farmers, working mothers, the unemployed, some labor union members, gays, and lesbians.

He was replaced by Norbert Meier, but Dynamo could not keep up their promotion bid, and finished 7th, due in part to poor away form.

* Hiroshima, Japan decided to pull out following poor public reaction to the bid and also because of a lack of funding.

** Opener rebids three of an unexpected suit ( 3 ) to show maximum points ( 14 with Acol ) and a poor doubleton ( xx ) in the bid suit ( e. g. diamonds )

A simple system to signal whether a player was good or poor for his bid would be almost certain to bring good dividends.

This was not the last transfer offer Bradford would receive as just a few months later on 25 January 2002 the club received a £ 1 million transfer bid from fellow Division One side Burnley and, due to Bradford's poor financial status, the club had no option but to sell the player.