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Answer for the clue "Price so that overruns are assured ", 7 letters:
lowball

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Wikipedia Word definitions in Wikipedia
Lowball was an early type of railway signal which indicated danger or a need to stop. The ball signal was a light or indicator suspended from a rope, that could move upwards and downwards, held by a weighted ball. The lowball signal was indicated when the ...

The Collaborative International Dictionary Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
lowball \lowball\ v. t. to give a deceptively low estimate of the price of (merchandise or services); -- a sales tactic to induce a person to buy. Syn: underestimate.

Wiktionary Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. 1 The position of the ball on an American railroad ball signal that indicated '''Stop'''. 2 (context poker English) A form of poker in which the lowest-ranking poker hand wins the pot. Usually the ace is the lowest-ranking card, straights and flushes ...

Usage examples of lowball.

Last he put on a baseball cap from the Tiara Casino, the logo of which was the best hand in Kansas City Lowball, 7-5-4-3-2 unsuited.

Like a surgeon before a routine operation, Oscar had learned to lowball his chances of success.

There is a sound that might be a fingernail pushing an ice cube around a lowball glass.

He lowered himself carefully, holding the lowball glass in front of him, and sank down in the chair.

Madelaine sat on the foot of the Barcalounger, near his ankles, her left hand resting on his knee, sipping a martini from a thick lowball glass.

He took some ice from a silver ice bucket and put it in a lowball glass and poured some Wild Turkey over it.

And how did a piece of slime like Phil Frigging Skink get the estimable Troy Jefferson, with his overt political ambitions, to offer a lowball plea in the first place?

One of those couples would discuss it long and hard and then make a lowball offer that would be quickly accepted.

Lloyd brought them alexanders in crystal lowball glasses they took upstairs with their coats and handbags.

Lloyd came with an alexander in a lowball glass, the crystal, he handed to Kelly in the chair and looked at Montez sitting on the other side of the bed, the lamp on, reading about Del Rio Power.

Emery Neff found that appraisal, scanned it, and jumped to the logical conclusion: that McKinley was a crook, lowballing so she could buy the books for a song.