[
UK
/ˌʌndəbˈɪd/
]
[ US /ˈəndɝˌbɪd/ ]
[ US /ˈəndɝˌbɪd/ ]
VERB
- bid too low
- bid (a hand of cards) at less than the strength of the hand warrants
- bid lower than a competing bidder
How To Use underbid In A Sentence
- When the bidding got really frantic he would run between tables, bating the underbidder in a way calculated to inflict maximum embarrassment. California Dreaming
- At times, he has been an underbidder at auctions, "letting it buy in and seeing if I can get it after the sale. The Aftermath of an Auction
- Small manufacturers tend to be terrified of losing an order, so they dramatically underbid.
- We were the underbidder on the GOLD Pan Pac which sold for a whopping $345,000.00. THE FUN SHOW 2009 : Coin Collecting News
- Their whole business model is about bringing in inexpensive foreign labor so they can underbid their rivals.
- The audience roared because they thought I underbid.
- The contractor had significantly underbid the job.
- Since declarer's side in a ‘no seven’ game can choose when to bring the game to a close, they can certainly arrange to lose; thus there will be no underbidding for the right to be declarer!
- Media hype and too much wine at dinner may lead a wealthy collector to overbid for a work at auction (but there must have been an underbidder).
- Many framers often find themselves underbidding themselves to keep a piece of work in the shop for framing.