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uhn der bid

  • v  bid (a hand of cards) at less than the strength of the hand warrants
  • v  bid lower than a competing bidder
  • v  bid too low

  • Because he saves double handling of the corpse and does not increase his overhead he has found that he can generally underbid local funeral parlors.
  • To land the job for the Aswan's first stage, Osman underbid his only competitor by nearly one half.
  • Locals say if you want a house built cheap, hire a polygamist, whose use of child labor and indifference to worker's comp laws may help him underbid everyone else.
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  • Softbank's Son And Sprint's Hesse Demo How To Mess Up A Great Deal
    By underbidding and trying to steal assets at both Sprint and especially Clearwire, Softbank's Masayoshi Son no longer looks all so clever. His initial deals seems to bail out the ill managed Sprint. But conduct since last fall has muddied the waters. DISH's Charlie Ergen has entered the fray. And now on 6/12/13, Clearwire's long dormant and seemingly useless Special Committee which was supposed ...
    June 13, 2013 - Forbes

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