underpricing
underpricing is the present participle and gerund of underprice.
Meaning of underprice
Verb
underprice (third-person singular simple present underprices, present participle underpricing, simple past and past participle underpriced)
- To set a price at less than the value or cost of an item.
- Still, the spokesman, Cory Shields, said NBC Universal was determined to change what it saw as Apple’s underpricing of video.2007 September 1, Brooks Barnes, “No New NBC Shows to Be Sold by Apple”, in New York Times
- To sell at a lower price than another (especially than a competitor).
- Near-synonym: undercut
- Synonyms:
- undercut
Noun
underpricing (usually uncountable, plural underpricings)
Forms of underpricing
| plural | underpricings |
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Questions about underpricing
- What does underpricing mean?
- Underpricing means the setting of a price too low.
- What is underpricing the present participle and gerund of?
- Underpricing is the present participle and gerund of underprice.
- What part of speech is underpricing?
- Underpricing is a noun.
- What is the plural of underpricing?
- The plural of underpricing is underpricings.
Words near underpricing in the dictionary
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Adapted from Wiktionary: underpricing (page history and authors); underprice (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.
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