price cutting
Americannoun
Etymology
Origin of price cutting
First recorded in 1895–1900
Example Sentences
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Aggressive price cutting helped Tesla beat analysts’ estimates for sales in the October to December quarter, but BYD did even better.
From Seattle Times ● Jan. 3, 2024
“They fought their way to control by rebate and drawback, bribe and blackmail, espionage and price cutting, and perhaps more important, by ruthless, never slothful efficiency of organization.”
From New York Times ● Feb. 20, 2018
An excess of supply over demand is forcing the majority of the industry to resort to price cutting in order to put money in the tills.
From BBC ● Dec. 20, 2015
Subsea Systems, a leading supplier of offshore oil and gas equipment, price cutting is not the whole story, and savings could be made if the process of ordering and qualifying kit were simplified.
From Reuters ● Nov. 13, 2013
It was to his interest to stimulate price cutting.
From El Diablo by Groesbeck, Dan Sayre
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