n.

someone who makes an offer

someone who makes a bid at cards

Do Bad Bidders Become Good Targets?
Auctions with a stochastic number of bidders ☆
Multi-unit auctions with budget-constrained bidders
CEO Turnover after Acquisitions: Are Bad Bidders Fired?
Standard Auctions with Financially Constrained Bidders
Multiple-Object Auctions with Budget Constrained Bidders
A Comparison of Naive and Experienced Bidders in Common Value Offer Auctions: A Laboratory Analysis
The adwords problem: online keyword matching with budgeted bidders under random permutations
Approximation algorithms for combinatorial auctions with complement-free bidders
An improved approximation algorithm for combinatorial auctions with submodular bidders