undervalue

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Verb

undervalue (undervalues, present participle undervaluing; past undervalued, past participle undervalued)

1. (transitive) To underestimate, or assign too low a value to.
2. (transitive) To have too little regard for.

   • In comparison of it I undervalued all ensigns of authority.

   • I write not this with the least intention to undervalue the other parts of poetry.

Synonyms

• underween

Translations

• German: unterbewerten, unterschätzen

Noun

undervalue (plural undervalues)

1. An undervaluation; a price or rate below the actual worth.
   • 1938, Law Reporter (volume 158, page 132)

     […] he must therefore prove that the contract was not at such an undervalue as would amount to fraud […]

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