undercutverb uk
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/ˌʌn.dɚˈkʌt/ present participle undercutting | past tense and past participle undercut
undercut verb
(CHARGE LESS THAN)
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[ T ] to charge less than a competitor: Big supermarkets can undercut all rivals, especially small family-owned shops.undercut someone by something They claim to undercut their competitors by at least five percent.
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Price decreases
bargain
bear market
bearishly
cheapen
closeout
concessional
couponer
couponing
debase
depreciate
devalue
freeze
knock off (something) phrasal verb
knock someone down phrasal verb
mark something down phrasal verb
nosedive
on sale phrase
overdiscount
spiral
tumble
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Selling
undercut verb
(DAMAGE)
[ T ] to damage something or to make it fail: He suspected it was an attempt to undercut his authority. 同义词
undermine
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Upsetting and destabilizing
bring
bring someone down phrasal verb
delegitimize
destabilization
destabilize
dislocate
disruptive
disruptively
diversionist
knock someone for a loop idiom
loop
make waves idiom
skid
stir
turn something upside down idiom
undermine
unsettle
unsettling
unspool
wave
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undercut verb
(HIT BALL)
[ I or T ]
sports
specialized If you undercut a ball, you hit it in a way that creates backspin (= when the ball turns round very quickly in the air or on a surface so that it slows down or moves backwards after landing or hitting something): He had to undercut the ball simply to get it back on line. Undercutting causes the smooth part of the ball to hit the pitch.
更多范例减少例句The way to give backspin to a batted ball is to undercut it with the swing.It is easier to volley an undercut ball.He tried to alter a bowling action and run-up that made it easy to undercut the ball.
undercutnoun [ C ] uk
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undercut noun [C]
(HAIR)
a hairstyle in which the hair is shaved or cut very short at the sides and back of the head and left longer on the top: When asking for an undercut, you must say how long you want the scissor-cut hair on top to be. an undercut style
更多范例减少例句The hair on the top of the head in an undercut is left long enough to be styled in many different ways.Even if you have curly hair you can still look great in an undercut.If you have thin hair, you should select a layered undercut to add volume.The undercut is a cool way to switch up any hairstyle.
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Hairstyles
Afro
Afro puff
bandeau
Bantu knots
barnet
bobbed
bouffant
bowl cut
hair extension
haircut
hairstyle
Mohawk
Mohican
pageboy
permed
pixie cut
plait
pompadour
pony
pudding basin
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undercut noun [C]
(TREE)
a cut shaped like a V that is made at the bottom of the trunk (= thick main stem) of a tree before it is cut down, to control the direction in which it falls : The undercut is a V-shaped notch cut into the side of the tree in the direction of falling.
更多范例减少例句The illustration shows loggers putting the undercut in a tree before felling. Here you can see a logger using a chainsaw to cut out an undercut wedge that will serve to direct the tree's fall.In this type of undercut a portion of the front face of the stump is also removed.
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Forestry
afforestation
agroforestry
ancient forest
arborist
beechwood
clearing
coppice
copse
ranger
saw something down phrasal verb
silvan
spinney
temperate rainforest
thicket
timber
timberline
tree line
tree surgeon
woodland
woody
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undercut | 美式英语词典
undercutverb [ T ] us
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/ˌʌn·dərˈkʌt/ present participle undercutting | past tense and past participle undercut
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to weaken, damage, or cause the failure of something; undermine: He's got a plan, so I don't want to undercut the effort that he has underway.
To undercut is also to charge less than a competitor: Large supermarkets can undercut their smaller rivals.
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undercut | 商务英语
undercutverb [ T ]
COMMERCE uk
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to sell goods or provide a service for a lower price than someone else: Large supermarkets undercut corner shops and put them out of business.
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undercut的例句
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He thus at once presupposes and undercuts the allegedly impenetrable barrier between doctor and patient upon which his proposed prophylaxis depends.
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An approach to negotiation based on argumentation using rebutting and undercutting was presented, which could aid agents to specialise their particular roles or behaviours.
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The problem is that her analysis undercuts this very argument.
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If this argument is made, however, then it risks undercutting the utility of this principle for donations within the family as well.
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In argumentation terms, the agent refuses the proposal because it can build an argument that undercuts it.
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In so doing, he undercuts his own position that appearances of analogical utterances in the internal policy discourse reflect analogical policy diagnoses.
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The marly limestone is eroded easily by undercutting beneath the knickpoint on the footslope.
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However, on this first answer, the very consistency of that gesture may end up undercutting the phantasmagoria on the level of totality.
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Science can also be seen as merely a product of evolution, and this undercuts the claims of evolutionary theory about ethics.
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At the very least, therefore, the consent paradigm is effective for undercutting rhetoric that depends upon depicting the fetus as innocent and powerless.
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We will use the terminology of undercuts and rebuts.
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She argues that this novel undercuts a reader's narrative predictions at every turn, "altering plots by putting them in unexpected places" (125).
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If this is a form of historicism, it is one that undercuts the obsession with modernity.
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The question is then whether sceptical theism successfully undercuts the empirical argument.
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What, then, accounts for the late addition of belladonna and for the attribution of a meaning that undercuts the very notion of a "language"?
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