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from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

  • transitive verb To rate too low; underestimate.

from The Century Dictionary.

  • To rate too low; rate below the value; undervalue.
  • noun A price less than the true value.
  • Being below the standard; inferior.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • transitive verb To rate too low; to rate below the value; to undervalue.
  • noun A price less than the value.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • verb transitive to underestimate; to make too low a rate or estimate
  • noun A price less than the value.

from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

  • verb make too low an estimate of

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under- +‎ rate

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