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underˈsell, v.
[under-1 8 b, 10 a. Cf. Da. undersælge, Sw. -sälja.]
1. trans. To sell at a lower price than (another person); to cut out by selling at a lower rate.
1622Malynes Anc. Law-Merch. 230 The striuing of making commodities, and to vndersel one another, are dangerous. 1677A. Yarranton Eng. Improv. 115 Whereby the Manufacture is always cheaply done, and thereby hath the advantage of sending it to foreign Markets, and under⁓sell others. 1713Mercator No. 9/1 The French being able to Underwork us will also Undersell us. 1799J. Robertson Agric. Perth 213 The price of labour will become so enormous that we shall soon be undersold in every market. 1849–50Alison Hist. Eur. XIV. xcv. §96. 192 England, which can easily undersell India in cotton manufacture,..finds its cultivators undersold by Poland and America with grain. 1884Law Times Rep. 31 May 421/1 The defendants are selling cheaper materials and underselling the plaintiffs.
b. transf. (Said of the thing sold.)
1757Refl. Importation Bar-Iron 12 The American Iron will always greatly undersell the British at Market. 1792A. Young Trav. France 262 England buys the French cotton, and works it into fabrics that undersell those of France.
2. To sell (a commodity) at too low a price. Also fig.
1647N. Ward Simple Cobler 47 Just it is that such as undersell them, should not re-inherit them in haste. 1662Petty Taxes 20 The farmer for haste is forced to under-sell his corn. 1692Lyttelton in Hatton Corr. (Camden) II. 169 As to my pictures,..I doubt those of more esteeme will not be very ready money, unlesse mitily undersold. 1817Mill Brit. India II. v. iv. 469 They accused the Presidency of underselling the lands. 1854Patmore Angel in Ho., Betrothal 99 But lofty honours undersold Seller and buyer both disgrace.
Hence underˈseller; underˈselling vbl. n. and ppl. a.
1672Petty Pol. Anat. (1691) 75 The Interest must enflame the price of Irish Commodities, and consequently give to other Nations the means of underselling. 1842J. F. Watson Ann. Pennsylv. (1877) I. 242 All prices were alike;..there was no motive to run about town to seek out undersellers. 1863Wynter Subtle Brains, etc. 377 The under-seller, however, manages to turn out from ninety-four to ninety-six [loaves]. 1899Westm. Gaz. 16 Feb. 2/3 We doubt if the underselling foreigner could be kept out by such artificial manipulations of the market. |