Well, some one underbid us," he said, trying to hide his disappointment.
But nobody could underbid us; we quoted 'em rock bottom," Wright persisted.
Nobody could underbidus and get out even," said Wright.
I tell you whoever underbid us will lose money by it, or else you'll get poor stuff.
If we are to be underbid on every contract worth having, we might as well go out of the business!
The tendency to underbid rivals will always be strong where profits are large, and it may safely be asserted that efforts to maintain, through combinations, excessive rates are the most fruitful source of ruinous competition.
He says: "In order to secure traffic, a railway official felt called upon to underbid his rival.
But everybody has his opinion one way or another about bad trade, or the effect of high wages, or the harm of being underbid by cheap labour, or any one of hundreds of questions of social importance.
If foreign manufacturers can underbid home-producers, this is the best, and in fact the only conclusive proof that the things can be made more cheaply and successfully abroad.
No tradesman or manufacturer likes to see himself underbid by those who offer better goods at lower prices.
On the other hand, if we reduce rates we shall be underbid until the government margin of larger operation cost causes us to lose money.
In result, their competitors underbid by the smallest margins necessary to get the cargoes.
But," said the Duke, "is there not an obligation on a government to see that its people are not underbid in the struggle for life!
The Japanese laborer can underbid him for the requirements of existence, and consequently he must supplant him.
Her wealth is not due to her ability to underbid her neighbors.
Indeed, the high value of certain articles on display suggested a reply to a Japanese friend who observed, thoughtfully, "If China adopts Western industrial methods, she will be able to underbid us in all the markets of the world.
The Japanese man of the people--the skilled laborer able to underbid without effort any Western artisan in the same line of industry--remains happily independent of both shoemakers and tailors.
The former carriers between B and C lose their business, and the makers at C lose some part of theirs, in the same way that any producer loses the traffic when he is underbid by rivals.
The producer who works at the greater advantage is foreordained to underbid and supplant the one who works under more unfavorable conditions.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "underbid" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word. Other words: bargain; bid; cheapen; dicker; haggle; huckster; negotiate
