单词 | under-price |
释义 | under-pricen. A price below the standard or usual price; an inadequate payment. ΘΚΠ society > trade and finance > monetary value > price > low price or rate > [noun] > price or rate below proper one under-price1611 under-rate1631 1611 R. Cotgrave Dict. French & Eng. Tongues Non-prix, an vnder value, or vnderprice. 1727 N. Bailey Universal Etymol. Eng. Dict. II To Under-work, to work for an Under-price. 1770 J. Langhorne & W. Langhorne tr. Plutarch Lives III. 268 He was selling a considerable estate, which he wanted a friend to have at an under-price. 1771 W. Evans tr. R. Prichard Welshman's Candle 399 At under-price men's lands I often bought. 1807 R. Southey Lett. from Eng. II. 354 To advertise in newspapers which..insert their notices at an under-price. 1862 J. Binny in H. Mayhew London Labour (new ed.) Extra vol. 344/2 The employers of these cab-drivers are as willing to receive it at an underprice. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1921; most recently modified version published online March 2022). under-pricev. 1. transitive. To price lower than the value. ΚΠ 1756 H. Walpole Let. 14 Oct. in Lett. to G. Montagu (1818) 138 If you had offered ten pounds for a set of P—m's, perhaps I should not have thought you had underpriced them. 2. To undercut (one) in price. ΘΚΠ society > trade and finance > selling > sell [verb (transitive)] > expose or offer for sale > at a lower price than undercreep1592 undersell1622 under-price1890 1890 Daily News 31 Dec. 7/2 Brown, in answer to the charge, said the prosecutor had underpriced him. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1921; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1611v.1756 |
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