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price war

price war noun: a situation where commercial competitors repeatedly undercut each other's prices in order to attract buyers.

Noun

price war (plural price wars)

  1. A situation where commercial competitors repeatedly undercut each other's prices in order to attract buyers.
    • BYD, Xpeng, Changan and Dongfeng showed electric vehicles (EVs) with advanced technology and prices that undercut Western models, or announced expansions making it clear that Europe is the main target in their worldwide export blitz. Yet Chinese ebullience in Europe contrasts sharply with troubles...2025 September 15, “The brutal fight to dominate Chinese carmaking”, in The Economist, archived from the original on 15 Sep 2025

Antonyms of price war

Forms of price war

pluralprice wars

Questions about price war

What does price war mean?
Price war means a situation where commercial competitors repeatedly undercut each other's prices in order to attract buyers.
What part of speech is price war?
Price war is a noun.
What is the plural of price war?
The plural of price war is price wars.

Words near price war in the dictionary

  1. price tags
  2. price taker
  3. price takers
  4. price to sell
  5. price up
  6. price war
  7. price wars
  8. Price's equation
  9. Price's groundnut
  10. Price's law
  11. Price's potato-bean

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