underbid
verb[T]
COMMERCEuk/ˌʌndəˈbɪd/usunderbidding|underbid|underbidtoofferto doworkorprovideaservicefor alowerpricethan someoneelse:
Theystoppedbiddingforairportcontractsbecause they wereroutinelyunderbid bycheaperproviders.
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I am assured that there is no question of underbidding.
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Again the merchants have been using their position tounderbidthe maximum price, and they have been making excessive profits, often from £5 to £6 per animal.
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As a result of all the pressure, companies are underbidding to obtain contracts.
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Theunderbidis said to have been 12 million dollars.
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Itunderbidbecause, like everyone else in the market, it did not realise what the companies would be worth once the privatisation programme had proved a great success.
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Players whounderbidscore only one point for each trick.
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.Players whounderbidor overbid lose the amount of the bid, plus ten points for each trick under or overbid.
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.Insiders may resist competition with outsiders by refusing to cooperate with or harassing outsiders who try tounderbidthe wages of incumbent workers.
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.The bidding ends once no one is willing tounderbidthe current price.
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.Players whounderbidare deducted points in the amount of the bid multiplied by 5.
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.Because of this he had low overhead and was able tounderbidhis competitors many times and obtain the order.
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.That is, every deal must in total be either overbid orunderbid.
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.Players whounderbidare deducted points in the amount of the bid.
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.A later rule allowed contestants, on their opening bid only, tounderbidthe other bids, but this automatically froze their bid and prevented them from later increasing the original bid.
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.By the 9th century, there was an active rivalry between these scholar-priests and ritual priests, with each group underbidding the other in their attempts to secure an income.
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