[UNDER-1 10 b. Cf. Sw. underpris.) A price below the standard or usual price; an inadequate payment.
1611. Cotgr., Non-prix, an vnder value, or vnderprice.
1727. Bailey (vol. II.), To Under-work, to work for an Under-price.
1770. Langhorne, Plutarch IIII. 268. He was selling a considerable estate, which he wanted a friend to have at an under-price.
1771. W. Evans, trans. Welshman’s Candle, 399.
| At under-price men’s lands I often bought, | |
| Yet still some part of that small pittance kept: | |
| But now I to this gloomy gaol am brought, | |
| I have no money to repay the debt. |
1807. Southey, Espriella’s Lett., II. 354. To advertise in newspapers which … insert their notices at an under-price.
1862. Mayhew, Lond. Labour, II. 344/2. The employers of these cab-drivers are as willing to receive it at an underprice.
