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- noun The last person to drop out in an auction; the second-highest bidder.
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Examples
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The underbidder was the Metropolitan Museum of Art. Asked recently to name a single work that he regretted not acquiring, the Met's outgoing director, Philippe de Montebello, responded, "The Rubens."
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We were the underbidder on the GOLD Pan Pac which sold for a whopping $345,000.00.
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Stewart Blay, a leading grading expert and accomplished Barber coin collector, was the underbidder.
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The National Gallery was the underbidder at that auction, but after the sale it was able to cut a deal to secure the work for the collection.
At National Gallery, two paintings by one Dutch master add up to a sublime exhibition 2011
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David Hall was the underbidder, at a level of $1,207,500.
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Stewart Blay, a leading grading expert and accomplished Barber coin collector, was the underbidder.
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Mr. Toll was the underbidder on Christie's 1881 Caillebotte, "Hors d'oeuvres," which sold to a telephone bidder for $530,500, exceeding its high estimate.
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We were the underbidder on the GOLD Pan Pac which sold for a whopping $345,000.00.
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At times, he has been an underbidder at auctions, "letting it buy in and seeing if I can get it after the sale."
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When the bidding got really frantic he would run between tables, bating the underbidder in a way calculated to inflict maximum embarrassment.
California Dreaming Lawrence Donegan 2002
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