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"You underbid them - more than just a little, given the quality."

Players who underbid score only one point for each trick.

Players who underbid lose the number of tricks they've taken that hand.

They were usually considerably greater than Johnson's and he was often able to underbid them.

On the third hand, the players collectively underbid (10 of 11).

This enabled them to underbid other companies for work and keep more of the profits.

Two of a trade must not underbid each other.

The company had been underbidding on contracts, and financial controls were poor.

He said its tax advantage meant it could underbid competitors.

Underbidding us, working at a loss to take the bread from our mouths!

That is, every deal must in total be either overbid or underbid.

"They tend to underbid one another so that the people who are working for them don't make much money," she said.

The best policy is probably to disguise the power of the hand by underbidding slightly, hoping to be allowed to play at any level.

Players who underbid are deducted points in the amount of the bid.

If they underbid, they're competing less effectively than the competition."

The company, for its part, said it lost most of the upstate contracts to competitors who had underbid them.

No project was too small, and he often underbid to build up his business and reputation.

And we underbid every other contractor for those chips.

He'd never been able to see that it made any difference; his lodge brothers gave him business only when he underbid the competition.

A lovely lot of money, even if Sergei had, in retrospect, underbid the deal.

But Irish immigrants and blacks fought over jobs, underbidding one another on wages.

I had no proof, but we were being underbid by just enough that it wasn't coincidental.

The Europeans were underbidding a wide variety of works."

"He went overboard when he underbid me on those government products.

The manufacturers appear to have underbid the contracts by a wider margin than usual.

'They Tend to Underbid' "The profession has gotten more cutthroat as people compete for what few commissions come along," said Sara Hart, a 36-year-old Columbia-trained architect with wide experience who has been out of work since March, when she was laid off.