The word "undercutting" is correct and usable in written English.
You can use it to describe a situation in which somebody is offering goods or services at a lower price than somebody else in order to gain an unfair advantage in a market. For example: "The new store was accused of undercutting the local businesses by offering their products at significantly lower prices."
First Utility last week became the cheapest energy company in the country with its internet iSave tariff, undercutting British Gas.
But, he realised, it's just a refinement of its aims: just like any company, it wants to build a "moat" – a unique selling point that protects it from would-be rivals undercutting or displacing it.
It is part of an effort to boost the profits of large corporations and Wall Street by offshoring jobs, undercutting worker rights, and dismantling labor, environmental, health, food safety and financial laws.
Herrington bristled to see orange-jumpsuited detainees carried to wooden shacks by guards and shackled to the floor – techniques that reinforced the detainees' anger at their confinement, undercutting the rapports Herrington advised would be critical for getting them to talk.
Xiaomi sells its cheaper RedMi handsets for $130 unlocked, and its higher quality Mi3 for $330, undercutting similar handsets from Apple and Samsung.
She has no qualms about undercutting local businesses: "I don't have a problem as many of those existing specialist student agencies are not providing the service the community needs: it's often a case of taking the money and running".
In 1969, the court struck down an initiative undercutting fair-housing policies on the grounds that it "place[d] special burdens on racial and religious minorities within the governmental process by making it more difficult for them to secure legislation on their behalf".
Now, with Chinese and Indian workers undercutting them by an order of magnitude, southerners must produce more or starve.As any visitor can see, southerners are not starving (see article).
The 55 drafters included 15 Sunni Arabs, along with a further ten Sunni Arab "consultants", recruited in the hope of bringing more Sunnis into peaceful politics and undercutting the insurgents.
This would be a way to cushion the blow on the economy of a severe shock to the financial system, and it could potentially lead to a more orderly closure of small firms.But since it is now unlikely that there will be any fresh loan write-offs, this plan simply provides another lifeline for firms that are already undercutting healthier rivals.
Compaq could not switch to Dell's direct model because this would mean undercutting the 11,000 retailers and other channel partners that had been so much a part of Compaq's success to date.
