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
- anencephalic
- anencephaly
- an end in itself
- an Englishman's home is his castle
- anent
- -aneous
- anergia
- anergic
- anergy
- anerobiosis
- aneroid
- anesthesia
- anesthesiology
- anesthetic
- anesthetist
- anesthetize
- aneuploid
- aneuploidy
- aneurism
- aneurysm
- aneurysmal
- an even break
- an even chance
- anew
- a new broom sweeps clean