"lowball" is a correct and usable word in written English.
It is usually used in the context of offering a lower price for something than someone is willing to accept. Example sentence: "The car dealer tried to lowball me on the price of the car, but I held firm on my asking price."
If Elpida, the vehicle through which JP McManus, John Magnier and others own 20% of M&B, supports Lewis's lowball offer, M&B is as good as sold.
Lewis's proposal is to bid for M&B, but at such a lowball price that Ivell, Blood and finance director Tim Jones, the only independent directors, can't recommend surrender.
During the second weekend of March it had seven or eight, and Mr Brady expects to sell it soon (he has already turned down one lowball offer).
Some experts contend that firms in the prison business reap profits by billing government for rather more than their initial lowball estimates while scrimping in ways that may make prisons less secure.
One Barclays executive interpreted a memo from Mr Diamond, written after a telephone call with Mr Tucker in the autumn of 2008, as a sanction to "lowball" estimates of Barclays' borrowing costs so as to assuage fears about its solvency.
Developers who know the sellers have to sell will surely be tempted to "lowball" their offers.The question is not whether the development plan is good or bad.
Omaha is often played lowball.
Because flushes and straights are not counted in Omaha lowball games, the best hand is A-2-3-4-5, suits not being considered.
Lots of people are in love with her, but she has no real track record, so they tend to lowball".
Two weeks ago, when the newspaper publisher McClatchy announced that it was buying the venerable Knight Ridder chain, for the lowball price of $6.5 billion, McClatchy's C.E.O., Gary Pruitt, called the deal "a vote of confidence in the newspaper industry".
Or was the ministry given a lowball value to set it up for a windfall profit in the event of a sale?
