LOWBALL

Pronunciation (US): (GB):

Meaning:

Make a deliberately low estimate

Example:

The construction company wanted the contract badly and lowballed

Synonyms:

lowball; underestimate

Classified under:

Verbs of thinking, judging, analyzing, doubting

Hypernyms (to "lowball" is one way to...):

approximate; estimate; gauge; guess; judge (judge tentatively or form an estimate of (quantities or time))

Sentence frame:

Somebody ----s something