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▪ I. ˈunder-price, n. [under-1 10 b. Cf. Sw. underpris.] A price below the standard or usual price; an inadequate payment.
1611Cotgr., Non-prix, an vnder value, or vnderprice. 1727Bailey (vol. II), To Under-work, to work for an Under-price. 1770Langhorne Plutarch III. 268 He was selling a considerable estate, which he wanted a friend to have at an under-price. 1771W. Evans tr. Welshman's Candle 399 At under-price men's lands I often bought. 1807Southey Espriella's Lett. II. 354 To advertise in newspapers which..insert their notices at an under-price. 1862Mayhew Lond. Labour II. 344/2 The employers of these cab-drivers are as willing to receive it at an underprice. ▪ II. ˌunder-ˈprice, v. [under-1 8 b, c.] 1. trans. To price lower than the value.
1756H. Walpole Let. to Montagu 14 Oct., If you had offered ten pounds for a set of Pelhams, perhaps I should not have thought you had underpriced them. 2. To undercut (one) in price.
1890Daily News 31 Dec. 7/2 Brown, in answer to the charge, said the prosecutor had underpriced him. |