Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- intransitive verb To buy less (of something) than is needed.
- intransitive verb To buy something at a lower price than (a competitor).
- intransitive verb To buy less of something than is needed.
from The Century Dictionary.
- To buy at less than the value. To buy at a lower price than (another).
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- transitive verb rare To buy at less than the real value or worth; to buy cheaper than.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- verb transitive To buy at less than the value of.
- verb transitive To buy at less than the price of another.
- verb transitive To
buy too little.
Etymologies
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
From under- + buy.
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Examples
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English ships, and could underbuy and undersell the English manufacturer and the English trader.
Days of the Discoverers L. Lamprey 1910
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My friend doesn't want to overbuy what she needs, but doesn't want to underbuy either.
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