Crossword clues for underbid
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Underbid \Un`der*bid"\, v. t. To bid less than, as when a contract or service is offered to the lowest bidder; to offer to contract, sell, or do for a less price than.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Wiktionary
n. A bid that is lower than another. vb. 1 To bid too low. 2 To bid lower than another. 3 (context bridge English) To bid less than the full value of a hand of cards.
WordNet
v. bid (a hand of cards) at less than the strength of the hand warrants
bid lower than a competing bidder [ant: outbid]
bid too low [ant: overbid]
[also: underbidding]
Usage examples of "underbid".
One reason Suffolk shows profits when he remodels an apartment house is because he makes contractors underbid each other.
Trygalle Trade Guild does not offer bids, for every other enterprise would be sure to greatly underbid them without even trying.
They called the American, French, and British space agencies, but China underbid everyone by half: a mere billion eurobucks.
Did he try to learn a useful trade, thousands of adepts were not only ready to underbid him, but to knock him on the head for an interloper.
Carney managed to get Tweed copies of those bids, which he underbid when submitting his own proposals.
All of them, subsidized by the Poles, could underbid their competitors.
Engineering Team has won the contract to design and build the hydro-electric dam at the foot of Lake Egendi, despite being markedly underbid by General Dynamics.
At seven thousand dollars apiece, PDC had underbid their nearest competitor by nineteen hundred dollars a unit.
To drive us out of business by conniving amongst themselves and underbidding us.
Worse, some were underbidding the local labor force, which was causing bad feelings and some violent confrontations.
With this much business spaced out over two years, I could afford to pick and choose among the other work I took on, with no more dangerous underbidding just to keep my people busy.
Obviously, KDY decided there would be a use someday for some major bombing action-the company didn't get to be the leading shipbuilder for the Empire by just underbidding its competition, you know.
The Wizard escaped off-planet under cover of the chaos DeCade created, starved and scrimped till he could start a freight line, took a huge loss underbidding the first company so he could get the franchise, and died happy only because he knew he’d set us on the path to this day.
The Wizard escaped off-planet under cover of the chaos Decade created, starved and scrimped till he could start a freight line, took a huge loss underbidding the first company so he could get the franchise, and died happy only because he knew he'd set us on the path to this day.