Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- transitive verb To charge (a customer, for example) less than is customary or required.
- transitive verb To load (a firearm) with an insufficient charge.
- noun An insufficient or improper charge.
from The Century Dictionary.
- To charge less than a fair sum or price for, as goods.
- To put an insufficient charge into: as, to
undercharge a gun.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun A charge that is less than is usual or suitable.
- transitive verb To charge below or under; to charge less than is usual or suitable for.
- transitive verb To put too small a charge into.
- transitive verb (Mil.) a mine whose crater is not as wide at top as it is deep.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- verb To
charge less than the correct amount.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun a price that is too low
- verb charge (someone) too little money
- noun an insufficient charge
Etymologies
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Examples
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Hey Sarg, I was thinking along the same lines too, a undercharge can be just as bad as an overcharge.
An Expert Gunsmith on Over-Pressure Rounds and Exploding Handguns 2009
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These subsidiaries overcharge or undercharge one another until the profits look to be made in a low-tax or no tax country.
Dan Smith: In the Public Interest: Deficit Reduction That Should Be Easy Dan 2011
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I still believe the damage was caused from an undercharge or wrong powder ...
An Expert Gunsmith on Over-Pressure Rounds and Exploding Handguns 2009
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Hey Sarg, I was thinking along the same lines too, a undercharge can be just as bad as an overcharge.
An Expert Gunsmith on Over-Pressure Rounds and Exploding Handguns 2009
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These subsidiaries overcharge or undercharge one another until the profits look to be made in a low-tax or no tax country.
Dan Smith: In the Public Interest: Deficit Reduction That Should Be Easy Dan 2011
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I still believe the damage was caused from an undercharge or wrong powder ...
An Expert Gunsmith on Over-Pressure Rounds and Exploding Handguns 2009
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Clay, read how ishawooadescribed that round and think, high pressuer, could it have been an overcharge ... undercharge ... could the rifling been shot out at the chamber mouth .. all these can cause the indicators he listed, bullet set out alittle could not cause this "unless" there was an excessive gap at the chamber mouth.
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Trucking undercharge crisis hits industry shippers. (food industry): An article from: Food Processing by Lisa R. Van Wagner
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Trucking undercharge crisis hits industry shippers. (food industry): An article from: Food Processing by Lisa R. Van Wagner
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And more often than not, the mixup results in an overcharge, not an undercharge.
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