undercharge
/ʌndəˈtʃɑːdʒ
/verb [with object]
1Charge (someone) a price or amount that is too low: the retailer has been undercharged and actually owes the supplier more money...
- He said he didn't really know how to go about setting prices, and he thought he might be undercharging his customers, perhaps by a substantial amount.
- Managers of a well-known Dublin bar and bistro decided last month they were undercharging their trendy customers for sipping cappuccinos.
- He hooks up with a grocery store cashier who undercharges poor people and steals food from the store to help her aging friend, a veteran of the Resistance.
2Give less than the proper charge to (an electric battery).If the system is overcharged or undercharged with refrigerant, it will not work properly.
noun
A charge that is insufficient.‘The developer in both cases had paid the agreed contribution and as a result the undercharge is uncollectable,’ he said....
- Your letter mentions that checkers who undercharge are made to pay the undercharge and are also suspended from work.
- This process does transfer ground rent from areas of overcharge to areas of undercharge.
Rhymes
- intermediateness
- intermediate technology
- intermediation
- intermediator
- intermedin
- intermedium
- interment
- intermesh
- intermezzo
- interminable
- interminableness
- interminably
- intermingle
- intermission
- intermit
- intermittence
- intermittency
- intermittent
- intermittent claudication
- intermittently
- intermix
- intermixable
- intermixture
- intermodal
- intermolecular