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Lowball

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Verb

1. lowball, underestimate

make a deliberately low estimate

Example Sentences:
'The construction company wanted the contract badly and lowballed'

WordNet Lexical Database for English. Princeton University. 2010.

Lowball

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noun
1. 
a game of poker in which the player with the lowest hand wins
2. 
a. 
a very low estimate or offer
b. 
(as modifier)
a lowball bid
verb
3. (transitive)
to make a very low estimate or offer for (a service, product, company, etc)

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Lowball

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verb transitive
1. 
to give an understated price, estimate, etc. to (someone), esp. without intending to honor it
2. 
to so understate (a price, etc.)
adjective
3. 
of or having to do with prices, estimates, fares, etc. that are kept very low, esp. so as to take away sales from competitors

Webster’s New World College Dictionary, 4th Edition. Copyright © 2010 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. All rights reserved.

Lowball

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tr.v. low·balled, low·bal·ling, low·balls
Informal
To underestimate or understate (a cost) deliberately: "I get hopping mad every time I see a politician lowballing the cost of his latest healthcare boondoggle" (Megan McArdle).

The American Heritage ® Dictionary of the English Language, Fifth Edition copyright ©2018 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.

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