Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- intransitive verb To bid lower than (a competitor).
- intransitive verb Games To bid less than the full value of (one's hand) in bridge.
- intransitive verb To make an unnecessarily low bid.
from The Century Dictionary.
- To bid or offer less than (another), as at auctions; offer to execute work, supply goods, etc., at a lower price than (another).
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- transitive verb 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 lower price than.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- verb To
bid too low - verb To bid lower than another
- verb bridge To bid less than the full value of a hand of cards
- noun A
bid that is lower than another.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- verb bid (a hand of cards) at less than the strength of the hand warrants
- verb bid lower than a competing bidder
- verb bid too low
Etymologies
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Examples
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Perhaps that's what Jobs knew and Obama didn't: that there was nothing Obama could do to bring those jobs back - not as long as danger and fraud can underbid safety and fairness.
Richard (RJ) Eskow: Hell is Cheap: China, Apple, and the Economics of Horror RJ 2012
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Companies that don't pay their workers can always underbid those that do.
Richard (RJ) Eskow: Hell is Cheap: China, Apple, and the Economics of Horror RJ 2012
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Companies affiliated with the Guard are large enough to underbid competitors and are generally favored in the bidding process for large contracts.
Shirin Mohammadi: Where Washington's Iran Policy Went Wrong Shirin Mohammadi 2010
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Perhaps that's what Jobs knew and Obama didn't: that there was nothing Obama could do to bring those jobs back - not as long as danger and fraud can underbid safety and fairness.
Richard (RJ) Eskow: Hell is Cheap: China, Apple, and the Economics of Horror RJ 2012
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Surely, an 'efficient' private company can underbid the government option!
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Companies affiliated with the Guard are large enough to underbid competitors and are generally favored in the bidding process for large contracts.
Shirin Mohammadi: Where Washington's Iran Policy Went Wrong Shirin Mohammadi 2010
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Companies affiliated with the Guard are large enough to underbid competitors and are generally favored in the bidding process for large contracts.
Shirin Mohammadi: Where Washington's Iran Policy Went Wrong Shirin Mohammadi 2010
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Companies affiliated with the Guard are large enough to underbid competitors and are generally favored in the bidding process for large contracts.
Shirin Mohammadi: Where Washington's Iran Policy Went Wrong Shirin Mohammadi 2010
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Companies affiliated with the Guard are large enough to underbid competitors and are generally favored in the bidding process for large contracts.
Shirin Mohammadi: Where Washington's Iran Policy Went Wrong Shirin Mohammadi 2010
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Fixed fees ensure your earnings, however, since assignments are notoriously underbid and, in competition with other firms, you will only make real profit in cases where the client changes their original request and, unfortunately, this gives the client a bad taste.
Soren Petersen: Designers With a Stake in Design Soren Petersen 2011
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