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UNDERSELL (undersold)

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Irregular inflected form: undersold  Listen to US pronunciation  Listen to GB pronunciation

 Dictionary entry overview: What does undersell mean? 

UNDERSELL (verb)
  The verb UNDERSELL has 1 sense:

1. sell cheaper than one's competitionplay

  Familiarity information: UNDERSELL used as a verb is very rare.


 Dictionary entry details 


UNDERSELL (verb)

 Conjugation: 
Present simple: I / you / we / they undersell  Listen to US pronunciation  Listen to GB pronunciation ... he / she / it undersells  Listen to US pronunciation  Listen to GB pronunciation
Past simple: undersold  Listen to US pronunciation  Listen to GB pronunciation
Past participle: undersold  Listen to US pronunciation  Listen to GB pronunciation
-ing form: underselling  Listen to US pronunciation  Listen to GB pronunciation


Sense 1

Meaning:

Sell cheaper than one's competition

Classified under:

Verbs of buying, selling, owning

Synonyms:

undercut; undersell

Hypernyms (to "undersell" is one way to...):

sell (exchange or deliver for money or its equivalent)

"Undersell" entails doing...:

discount (give a reduction in price on)

Sentence frame:

Somebody ----s somebody

Derivation:

underseller (a seller that sells at a lower price than others do)


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