underprice

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verb

To set a price at less than the value or cost of an item.

“Near-synonym: undercut”

Scrabble 15

Meanings

verbunderprice (third-person singular simple present underprices, present participle underpricing, simple past and past participle underpriced)

present singular third person underprices · participle present underpricing · participle past underpriced · past underpriced

  1. To set a price at less than the value or cost of an item.

    Still, the spokesman, Cory Shields, said NBC Universal was determined to change what it saw as Apple’s underpricing of video.

    2007 September 1, Brooks Barnes, “No New NBC Shows to Be Sold by Apple”, in New York Times
  2. To sell at a lower price than another (especially than a competitor).

    Near-synonym: undercut

    Synonyms: undercut

Synonyms & antonyms

verbTo sell at a lower price than another (especially than a competitor).

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More synonyms by meaning

verbsell at artificially low prices

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Synonym sets from Open English WordNet, CC BY 4.0.

Origin

Translations

Finnish alihinnoitella
  • alihinnoitellato set a price at less than the value of an item
Polish zaniżać ceny, zaniżyć ceny
  • zaniżać cenyto set a price at less than the value of an item
  • zaniżyć cenyto set a price at less than the value of an item
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Chicago

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