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price war
noun
- intensive competition, especially among retailers, in which prices are repeatedly cut in order to undersell competitors or sometimes to force smaller competitors out of business.
price war
noun
- a period of intense competition among enterprises, esp retail enterprises, in the same market, characterized by repeated price reductions rather than advertising, brand promotion, etc
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Word History and Origins
Origin of price war1
First recorded in 1925–30
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Example Sentences
But businesses do not want or need to pay someone to get them into a price war.
From The Daily Beast
Neither of the players lost in this price war; even the customers won.
From The Daily Beast
Among the references to me, Wolff claims that Murdoch, in effect, won the London broadsheet price war, which he did not.
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That was the beginning of a losing price-war that lasted ten years.
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