lowball (HyperDic hyper-dictionary)

English > 1 sense of the word *lowball*:
VERB	cognition	lowball, underestimate	make a deliberately low estimate

English > *lowball*: 1 sense > verb 1, cognition
Meaning	make a deliberately low estimate.
Pattern	Somebody ----s something
Example	"The construction company wanted the contract badly and lowballed"
Synonym	underestimate
Broader	estimate, gauge, approximate, guess, judge	judge tentatively or form an estimate of (quantities or time)
Spanish	subestimar
Catalan	subestimar

HyperDic: lowball