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An insufficient charge
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undercharge
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Word definitions for undercharge in dictionaries
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Undercharge \Un`der*charge"\, v. t. To charge below or under; to charge less than is usual or suitable fro; as, to undercharge goods or services. To put too small a charge into; as, to undercharge a gun. Undercharged mine (Mil.), a mine whose crater is ...
WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
n. a price that is too low an insufficient charge v. charge (someone) too little money [ant: overcharge ]
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
vb. 1 To charge less than the correct amount. 2 To put too small a charge into.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1630s, from under + charge (v.).
Usage examples of undercharge.
I didn’t overcharge him, in fact I undercharged him for I liked the man.
But he was thinking how he'd undercharged Robert Clapley for the job, because one hundred grand was seeming more and more like a dirt-cheap fee for spending a whole wretched day on the golf course with Willie Vasquez-Washington.
At irregular intervals they presented him with a dirty slip of paper which they said was the bill, but he had the impression that they always undercharged him.
If the pistol had been undercharged with powder, and if the ball had struck the trigger guard, it was just possible that it had not had the velocity to penetrate the, rib cage, it had been turned by the bone and ploughed along under the skin, skidding along the groove between two ribs following the track that she had just probed, and lodging at last in the thick bed of the latissimus dorsi and tenes major muscle.
Then I think he’s kind just when it suits him—only then I find out he undercharges poor people.
Dale's hero-worship affected him only to the extent that he realized he would be forced to keep his admirer from undercharging him.