underpriced
adjective
COMMERCEuk/ˌʌndəˈpraɪst/usused todescribesomething thatcostsless than it isworth:
When aserviceis underpriced it will beoverused.
Underpricedstockswilleventuallyrisetofairvaluations.
| 单词 | underpriced |
| 释义 | underpriced adjective COMMERCEuk/ˌʌndəˈpraɪst/usused todescribesomething thatcostsless than it isworth: When aserviceis underpriced it will beoverused. Underpricedstockswilleventuallyrisetofairvaluations. Examplesofunderpricedunderpriced This could encourage excessive extraction or harvesting of a resource, if it wereunderpricedor subsidized (for example, low stumpage fees for timber). From theCambridge English Corpus The week of the crash, however, the performance guarantee wasunderpriced. From theCambridge English Corpus Anunderpricedguarantee encourages socially excessive risk taking and undermines the credibility of the clearinghouse's pledge to perform if there is a default. From theCambridge English Corpus Anunderpricedguarantee subsidizes high-risk traders and ultimately undermines the credibility of the exchange's commitment to perform. From theCambridge English Corpus When environmental resources areunderpriced, there is little incentive on anyone's part to develop technologies that economize on their use. From theCambridge English Corpus During the week of the crash, the guarantee wasunderpriced. From theCambridge English Corpus Finally, even though private net returns are economically viable in the watershed, the groundwater is stillunderpriced, not reflecting the true value. From theCambridge English Corpus On the day of the crash it wasunderpricedby as much as 10% of the value of the futures contract. From theCambridge English Corpus The above policies lead to the distortion of prices in health care, in which overpriced services andunderpricedservices coexist. From theCambridge English Corpus The reason is that green taxes reduce the 'subsidies' provided to the private sector in the form ofunderpricedpollution. From theCambridge English Corpus It is obvious that the dead-weight burden will sometimes be negative: for example, when the environmental resources areunderpricedand the tax increase takes the form of pricing these resources. From theCambridge English Corpus Why coal, like food, should have beenunderpricedin poorer countries and overpriced in coal-importing richer countries, and why those policies are now beginning to be reformed, are important questions. From theCambridge English Corpus What is clear, though, is that in the past coal has been grosslyunderpricedthere, which helps explain the relatively high consumption levels in some of those countries. From theCambridge English Corpus That is, government liabilities areunderpriced, compared to the budget surplus schedule at a given price level, which makes households obtain more government liabilities by giving up consumption of goods. From theCambridge English Corpus All wereunderpricedand the loss to the taxpayer runs to billions of pounds. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under theOpen Parliament Licence v3.0 These examples are from corpora and from sources on the web. Any opinions in the examples do not represent the opinion of the Cambridge Dictionary editors or of Cambridge University Press or its licensors. |
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