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单词 undercut
释义
undercut
verb[T]
uk
/ˌʌn.dəˈkʌt/us
/ˌʌn.dɚˈkʌt/
present participleundercutting|past tense and past participleundercut

undercutverb[T](CHARGE LESS THAN)

tochargeless than acompetitor:
要价低于（竞争对手）
Bigsupermarketscan undercut allrivals,especiallysmallfamily-ownedshops.大型超市售价可以低于所有竞争对手，尤其是那些商业街上的小店铺。
Theyclaimto undercuttheircompetitorsbyat least fivepercent.他们宣称售价至少要比竞争对手低5%。
SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases
Price decreases
  • bargain
  • bear market
  • bearish
  • closeout
  • concessional
  • couponer
  • couponing
  • cratering
  • deflate
  • deflation
  • depreciate
  • devalue
  • drop off
  • freeze
  • knock off (something)
  • marksomethingdown
  • overdiscount
  • post-devaluation
  • projected value
  • spiral
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Selling

undercutverb[T](DAMAGE)

todamagesomething or to make itfail:
削弱；损害；使失败
Hesuspectedit was anattemptto undercut hisauthority.他怀疑这是企图削弱他的权力。
Synonym
undermine
SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases
Upsetting and destabilizing
  • bring
  • bringsomeonedown
  • delegitimize
  • destabilization
  • destabilize
  • disruptive
  • disruptively
  • knock/throwsomeonefor a loopidiom
  • loop
  • make wavesidiom
  • put the skids undersomethingidiom
  • rock
  • stir
  • turn
  • unsettle
  • unsettling
  • unspool
  • unspooling
  • upset
  • wave
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undercut
noun[C]
uk/ˈʌn.də.kʌt/us/ˈʌn.dɚ.kʌt/

undercutnoun[C](HAIR)

ahairstylein which thehairisshavedorcutveryshortat thesidesand back of theheadandleftlongeron thetop:
Whenaskingfor an undercut, you must say howlongyouwantthe scissor-cuthairontopto be.
an undercutstyle
More examples
  • Thehairon thetopof theheadin an undercut isleftlongenough to bestyledin many differentways.
  • Even if you havecurlyhairyou can stilllookgreatin an undercut.
  • If you havethinhair, you shouldselectalayeredundercut toaddvolume.
  • The undercut is acoolway toswitchup anyhairstyle.
SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases
Hairstyles
  • Afro
  • Afro puff
  • bandeau
  • Bantu knots
  • barnet
  • blow-dry
  • bowl cut
  • chignon
  • dreadlocks
  • fade
  • hair extension
  • hairdo
  • kiss curl
  • pudding basin
  • relaxed
  • shake out
  • shoulder-length
  • sidelock
  • skinhead
  • spiked
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undercutnoun[C](TREE)

acutshapedlike a V that is made at thebottomof thetrunk(=thickmainstem)of atreebefore it iscutdown, tocontrolthedirectionin which itfalls:
The undercut is aV-shapednotchcutinto thesideof thetreein thedirectionoffalling.
More examples
  • Theillustrationshowsloggersputting the undercut in atreebeforefelling.
  • Here you canseealoggerusing achainsawtocutout an undercutwedgethat willservetodirectthe tree'sfall.
  • In thistypeof undercut aportionof thefrontfaceof thestumpis alsoremoved.
SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases
Forestry
  • afforestation
  • agroforestry
  • arborist
  • brush
  • cut down
  • deforest
  • deforestation
  • disafforest
  • logging
  • lumberjack
  • old growth
  • ranger
  • reafforest
  • reafforestation
  • slash-and-burn
  • the treeline
  • tree-lined
  • understorey
  • woodcutter
  • woody
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(Definition ofundercutfrom theCambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary & Thesaurus© Cambridge University Press)
undercut
verb[T]
uk
/ˌʌn.dəˈkʌt/us
/ˌʌn.dɚˈkʌt/
present participleundercutting|past tense and past participleundercut

undercutverb[T](CHARGE LESS THAN)

tochargeless than acompetitor
要价低于（竞争对手）
Bigsupermarketscan undercut allrivals,especiallysmallfamily-ownedshops.大型超市售价可以低于所有竞争对手，尤其是那些商业街上的小店铺。
Theyclaimto undercuttheircompetitorsbyat least fivepercent.他们宣称售价至少要比竞争对手低5%。

undercutverb[T](DAMAGE)

todamagesomething or to make itfail
削弱；损害；使失败
Hesuspectedit was anattemptto undercut hisauthority.他怀疑这是企图削弱他的权力。
Synonym
undermine

undercut| American Dictionary

undercut
verb[T]
us
/ˌʌn·dərˈkʌt/
present participleundercutting|past tense and past participleundercut
toweaken,damage, orcausethefailureof something;undermine:
He's got aplan, so I don'twantto undercut theeffortthat he hasunderway.
To undercut is also tochargeless than acompetitor:
Largesupermarketscan undercuttheirsmallerrivals.
(Definition ofundercutfrom theCambridge Academic Content Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

undercut| Business English

undercut
verb[T]
COMMERCE
uk
/ˌʌndəˈkʌt/us
-tt-|undercut|undercut
tosellgoodsorprovideaservicefor alowerpricethan someoneelse:
Largesupermarketsundercutcornershopsand put them out ofbusiness.
(Definition ofundercutfrom theCambridge Business English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

Examplesofundercut

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He thus at once presupposes and undercuts the allegedly impenetrable barrier between doctor and patient upon which his proposed prophylaxis depends.
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An approach to negotiation based on argumentation using rebutting and undercutting was presented, which could aid agents to specialise their particular roles or behaviours.
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The problem is that her analysis undercuts this very argument.
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If this argument is made, however, then it risks undercutting the utility of this principle for donations within the family as well.
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In argumentation terms, the agent refuses the proposal because it can build an argument that undercuts it.
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In so doing, he undercuts his own position that appearances of analogical utterances in the internal policy discourse reflect analogical policy diagnoses.
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The marly limestone is eroded easily by undercutting beneath the knickpoint on the footslope.
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However, on this first answer, the very consistency of that gesture may end up undercutting the phantasmagoria on the level of totality.
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Science can also be seen as merely a product of evolution, and this undercuts the claims of evolutionary theory about ethics.
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At the very least, therefore, the consent paradigm is effective for undercutting rhetoric that depends upon depicting the fetus as innocent and powerless.
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We will use the terminology of undercuts and rebuts.
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She argues that this novel undercuts a reader's narrative predictions at every turn, "altering plots by putting them in unexpected places" (125).
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If this is a form of historicism, it is one that undercuts the obsession with modernity.
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The question is then whether sceptical theism successfully undercuts the empirical argument.
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What, then, accounts for the late addition of belladonna and for the attribution of a meaning that undercuts the very notion of a "language"?
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