Definition of "underbids" []

• Third-person singular simple present indicative form of underbid. (verb)

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• "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."
• "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."
• "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."