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
- myelin form
- myelinic
- myelinisation
- myelinization
- myelinoclasis
- myelinoclastic
- myelinogenesis
- myelinogenetic
- myelinogenic
- myelinolysis
- myelinolytic
- myelinopathy
- myelinotoxic
- myelinotoxicity
- myelin sheath
- myelitic
- myelitis
- myeloblast
- myeloblastic
- myeloblastosis
- myelocele
- myelocoel
- myelocoele
- myelocyte
- myelocytic