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UNDERBID

Pronunciation (US):

(GB):

Irregular inflected form: underbidding   

 I. (verb) 

Sense 1

Meaning:

Bid too low

Classified under:

Verbs of buying, selling, owning

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

bid; offer; tender (propose a payment)

Domain category:

auction; auction sale; vendue (the public sale of something to the highest bidder)

Sentence frame:

Somebody ----s

Antonym:

overbid (bid more than the object is worth)

Sense 2

Meaning:

Bid lower than a competing bidder

Classified under:

Verbs of buying, selling, owning

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

bid; offer; tender (propose a payment)

Domain category:

auction; auction sale; vendue (the public sale of something to the highest bidder)

Sentence frame:

Somebody ----s somebody

Antonym:

outbid (bid higher than others)

Sense 3

Meaning:

Bid (a hand of cards) at less than the strength of the hand warrants

Classified under:

Verbs of buying, selling, owning

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

bid; call (make a demand, as for a card or a suit or a show of hands)

Sentence frame:

Somebody ----s something

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