[
UK
/lˈəʊbɔːl/
]
VERB
-
make a deliberately low estimate
The construction company wanted the contract badly and lowballed
How To Use lowball In A Sentence
- That figure, academics say, is also probably world-class lowballing. Times, Sunday Times
- They became popular after a Delaware court found a board of directors negligent in 1985 for approving in two hours the sale of a company at a lowball price.
- Ingraham on Sebelius "lowballing" donations from abortionist George Tiller Catholic Fire
- So if there's any truth to the rumor, my advice to the powers that be (or more accurately will be in a couple of months) is to think hard –you really, really don't want to lowball this.
- My father and I took a gamble and made a lowball offer - tens of thousands less than the original asking price - with the idea that I could afford monthly payments myself.
- So much for phony lowball estimates, which all governments dangle to keep the rubes quiet.
- Did he feel the $1.5 million annual salary was a lowball offer?
- As a result, it will be nearly impossible for investors to know if a company is lowballing, or to compare options costs among different companies.
- In June, they made lowball offers for the shares it doesn't own in each.
- If I was lowballed severely like that, I'd hate the organization enough to leave once my contract is up.