underbids

The reality is as Panetta states it: there are a few companies that can do private security, and Blackwater/Xe consistently underbids the rest, and heavens knows that we are miserable with THE DEFICITZ now, and if the difference between a bunch of drunk murdering Blackwater cockups and the next company of slightly fewer reprobates is $26 million, then we dance with the drunken, murdering cock-ups.

TV SoundOff: Sunday Talking Heads 2010

But the biggest cost boosts were contractor underbids and related costs — they added a median $1,000 in labor and $875 in materials to roofing projects and $1,000 in each to siding projects.

Tip of the Day: Keep costs down on roofing and siding projects 2009

But the biggest cost boosts were contractor underbids and related costs—they added a median $1,000 in labor and $875 in materials to roofing projects and $1,000 in each to siding projects.

Tip of the Day: Keep costs down on roofing and siding projects 2009

For example, there has been the policy of the economist, who said that the immigrant comes here to better his condition, and that coming here he lowers the standard of living, he undersells the native-born merchant and worker, he underbids labour, he is not an assets to the country, and economically we should not have him.

Immigration and Colonization 1922

He lives cheaply, crowds, and underbids even the Jew in the sweat shop.

VII. Pietro and the Jew 1902

Each big firm finds itself competent to undertake more business than it already possesses, and underbids its neighbour until the cutting of prices has sunk the weaker and driven profits to a bare subsistence point for the stronger competitors.

The Evolution of Modern Capitalism A Study of Machine Production 1899

Today he outnumbers and underbids the American and the north

Our Foreigners A Chronicle of Americans in the Making Samuel Peter Orth 1897

"But if we were going to do it at actual cost of manufacture," said the young man, "and somebody else underbids us, isn't somebody else losing money on the job?"

Tales of Fantasy and Fact Brander Matthews 1890

He lives cheaply, crowds, and underbids even the Jew in the sweat shop.

The Battle with the Slum 1881

And if, some day, the divine enchanter Love takes the poor fellow underbids guidance, and teaches him to do without billiards and beer, your Bohemian settles down into the purest and best of men.

Charlotte's Inheritance 1875