price war
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.
Origin of price war
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How to use price war in a sentence
But businesses do not want or need to pay someone to get them into a price war.
Neither of the players lost in this price war; even the customers won.
Amazon Is the Big Winner in Justice Dept. Suit Against Apple and 5 Publishers | Jimmy So | April 11, 2012 | THE DAILY BEASTAmong the references to me, Wolff claims that Murdoch, in effect, won the London broadsheet price war, which he did not.
That was the beginning of a losing price-war that lasted ten years.
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British Dictionary definitions for price war
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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