UNDERCUT


Meaning of UNDERCUT in English

verb

COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS

■ NOUN

price

He told them to put their pushers out to undercut Huey's prices .

The railways undercut his price and he was forced to find many more passengers than he had at first calculated.

Manufacturers often set different prices for their goods in different countries, but unofficial importers can undercut these prices.

EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES

The store sells its own brand of jeans, undercutting the prices of better-known brands.

These stories, if true, would greatly undercut Thomas's credibility.

EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS

All of our other efforts may come to little if we perpetuate a social system that undercuts those efforts.

Durham had undercut the entire theological rationale for the revival.

Indeed it would seem that these paintings undercut their initial didacticism and that order is evoked primarily to bring it into question.

Winter storms undercut the cliff base, then wash away thousands of tonnes of slippage in a single night.

With many firms, the firm that expands output will always be able to reduce costs and undercut its rivals.

Yet standing-order ministers then were furious because travelers undercut them and shattered their monopolies.

Yet when it comes to price, Euravia still endeavours to undercut the market.

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