| 单词 | lowball |
| 释义 | lowball (once / 134311 pages) v When you lowball someone, you attempt to buy something from them by offering a lot less money than it's actually worth. If you want to buy a car that you can't quite afford, you might decide to lowball. Whether you estimate something's value, make an offer to buy something, or try to hire a worker for a very small salary, you lowball. The word works as an adjective too: "He was selling fancy lemonade for two dollars a cup, but I made him a lowball offer, since I only had a quarter in my pocket." This informal slang word was coined in the US, from a railroad term. WORD FAMILYlowball: lowballing USAGE EXAMPLES“They were lowballing us the whole time,” said Sebastian Sanchez, a lawyer for public interest law firm Bet Tzedek, which works on wage cases. Washington Post(Dec 30, 2016) There are more than 40 types of stemware, including six highball and lowball designs. New York Times(Dec 30, 2016) But now I’m worried that this year, the company may offer me a lowball raise, or nothing at all. New York Times(Dec 22, 2016) v make a deliberately low estimate The construction company wanted the contract badly and lowballed Syn|Hyper underestimate approximate, estimate, gauge, guess, judge judge tentatively or form an estimate of (quantities or time) |
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