Dictionary entry
Undercharge
Pronunciation: /ʌndəˈtʃɑːdʒ/
Pronunciation
/ʌndəˈtʃɑːdʒ/
Myanmar Meaning
အဖိုးအခတောင်းခံရာတွင် နည်းပါးလွန်းသည်။ အားနည်းပါးလွန်းစွာ သွင်းထားသည်။ ( အမြောက်၊ လျှပ်စစ်ဘက်ထရီ။ )
Definition
undercharge / ʌndǝ'tʃɑ:dʒ / v ~ (sb) (for sth) ေလွ်ာ့ေရာင္းမိသည္။ He undercharged me (£ 1) (for the book). ❍ Compare OVERCHARGE ၁
Examples
- ‘He also makes sure to keep prices competitive
- which means he doesn't overcharge for a service
- but he doesn't undercharge either.’
- ‘He hooks up with a grocery store cashier who undercharges poor people and steals food from the store to help her aging friend
- a veteran of the Resistance.’
- ‘Keep your rates competitive without undercharging.’
- ‘I have gone back into a restaurant on discovering I have been undercharged
- and of course the staff have been outwardly grateful
- if slightly bemused.’
- ‘In the midst of it
- I interjected and offered to pay the sixteen bucks I'd been undercharged but someone - he may have been the guy who owned the place since he seemed to be doing the firing - said
- ‘No
- that's okay.’’
- ‘Mr Crowe said many of the customers who were undercharged were less well-off and were already struggling to pay for their electricity using the pre-paid card system.’
- ‘It's not like they are exactly undercharging you in the first place.’
- ‘When I got home
- I noticed that I was undercharged.’
- ‘One of the primary concerns resulting from this survey is that respondents were undercharging for their services; for some fee categories
- minimum fees were as low as $8.00 per hour.’
- ‘I am not sure this does explain it
- however
- since many state law schools undercharge the market rate.’
- ‘He said he didn't really know how to go about setting prices
- and he thought he might be undercharging his customers
- perhaps by a substantial amount.’
- ‘Companies consistently undercharge for products despite spending millions or even billions of dollars to develop or acquire them.’
- ‘In the original
- Marie
- a supermarket cashier
- selectively undercharges her elderly customers whom she knows cannot afford to buy all they need.’
- ‘I'm not sure if it was through embarrassment or accident that she undercharged me by $5.’
- ‘At Donner's Bakery
- Charlie makes the astonishing discovery that Ralph has been stealing from Mr. Donner by undercharging regular customers and splitting the remaining balance
- keeping half and giving the other half to the customer.’
- ‘But then he told me that I was undercharging
- and he himself offered me more money yet.’
- ‘It's obviously not in their interest to undercharge me
- and it's not in their interest to overcharge me
- either
- since the burger business is a competitive one.’
- ‘‘If it was the bank undercharging for eight years
- I'm quite certain it would have come to light an awful lot quicker
- ’ she said.’
- ‘Our bill came to a more than reasonable £14.95
- which we queried as we thought we had been undercharged
- but no
- I just can't add up.’
- ‘Managers of a well-known Dublin bar and bistro decided last month they were undercharging their trendy customers for sipping cappuccinos.’