undercut

To charge less for goods or work than someone competing with you.

• The supermarket undercut local shops.
• They undercut our prices by ten percent.
• Small firms cannot always undercut their larger competitors.

How to use it: undercut someone by an amount (They undercut us by five pounds.)

Similar words: undersell

Common phrases: undercut someone, undercut prices, undercut the competition

To remove material from underneath something so its upper part sticks out.

• The river undercut the bank.
• Waves have undercut the cliff.
• The sculptor undercut the stone to create a projecting edge.

Common phrases: undercut something, undercut a bank, undercut the cliff

A cut made underneath something, or the material removed by that cut.

• He made an undercut in the trunk.
• The undercut left the upper edge sticking out.
• She cleared away the material from the undercut.

Common phrases: make an undercut, deep undercut, undercut in something

A tender piece of beef from below the back of a cow.

• The butcher sold us an undercut.
• She roasted the undercut for dinner.
• This undercut is a tender piece of beef.

Similar words: fillet, tenderloin

Common phrases: beef undercut, roast undercut, undercut steak