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underquoting

underquoting is the present participle and gerund of underquote.

Meaning of underquote

Verb

underquote (third-person singular simple present underquotes, present participle underquoting, simple past and past participle underquoted)

  1. (ambitransitive) To give a quotation that is too low, or is lower than that offered by others
    • Many a salesman is told that the opposition has underquoted him. To the live-wire salesman this is no signal of defeat. If he conducts a showdown then and there, as likely as not he will find that he has not really been underquoted if value is considered.1936, Printing, volume 60, page 28

Questions about underquoting

What is underquoting the present participle and gerund of?
Underquoting is the present participle and gerund of underquote.

Words near underquoting in the dictionary

  1. underquotation
  2. underquotations
  3. underquote
  4. underquoted
  5. underquotes
  6. underquoting
  7. underran
  8. underrang
  9. underranger
  10. underrangers
  11. underrank

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Adapted from Wiktionary: underquoting (page history and authors); underquote (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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