Underquotation

noun

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Noun
  1. 1
    insufficient quotation countable, uncountable

    "Unscrupulous members offered special discounts, illegal rebates, and unauthorized underquotations to outflank their conference partners, and blamed their agents or 'invented' competition to justify these tactics."

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"Unscrupulous members offered special discounts, illegal rebates, and unauthorized underquotations to outflank their conference partners, and blamed their agents or 'invented' competition to justify these tactics."

Etymology

From under- + quotation.

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