Word Meanings - UNDERCHARGE - Book Publishers vocabulary database
1. To charge below or under; to charge less than is usual or suitable fro; as, to undercharge goods or services. 2. To put too small a charge into; as, to undercharge a gun. Undercharged mine , a mine whose crater is not as wide at top as it is
Additional info about word: UNDERCHARGE
1. To charge below or under; to charge less than is usual or suitable fro; as, to undercharge goods or services. 2. To put too small a charge into; as, to undercharge a gun. Undercharged mine , a mine whose crater is not as wide at top as it is deep. W. P. Craighill.
Related words: (words related to UNDERCHARGE)
- WHOSESOEVER
The possessive of whosoever. See Whosoever. - UNDERDOER
One who underdoes; a shirk. - UNDERBRED
Not thoroughly bred; ill-bred; as, an underbred fellow. Goldsmith. - UNDERSECRETARY
A secretary who is subordinate to the chief secretary; an assistant secretary; as, an undersecretary of the Treasury. - UNDERPLOT
1. A series of events in a play, proceeding collaterally with the main story, and subservient to it. Dryden. 2. A clandestine scheme; a trick. Addison. - UNDERNICENESS
A want of niceness; indelicacy; impropriety. - UNDERSOIL
The soil beneath the surface; understratum; subsoil. - UNDERDOLVEN
p. p. of Underdelve. - UNDERPROP
To prop from beneath; to put a prop under; to support; to uphold. Underprop the head that bears the crown. Fenton. - UNDERNIME
1. To receive; to perceive. He the savor undernom Which that the roses and the lilies cast. Chaucer. 2. To reprove; to reprehend. Piers Plowman. - UNDERCREST
To support as a crest; to bear. Shak. - UNDERGROUND INSURANCE
Wildcat insurance. - UNDERSAY
To say by way of derogation or contradiction. Spenser. - CHARGEANT
Burdensome; troublesome. Chaucer. - UNDERTAPSTER
Assistant to a tapster. - UNDERDELVE
To delve under. - UNDERSTOOD
imp. & p. p. of Understand. - UNDERDO
To do less than is requisite or proper; -- opposed to overdo. Grew. - CHARGE
1. A load or burder laid upon a person or thing. 2. A person or thing commited or intrusted to the care, custody, or management of another; a trust. Note: The people of a parish or church are called the charge of the clergyman who is set over them. - UNDERCOAT
1. A coat worn under another; a light coat, as distinguished from an overcoat, or a greatcoat. 2. A growth of short hair or fur partially concealed by a longer growth; as, a dog's undercoat. - PLUNDERER
One who plunders or pillages. - MISCHARGE
To charge erroneously, as in account. -- n. - TEN-POUNDER
A large oceanic fish found in the tropical parts of all the oceans. It is used chiefly for bait. - DUNDERHEAD
A dunce; a numskull; a blockhead. Beau. & Fl. - ENCHARGE
To charge ; to impose upon. His countenance would express the spirit and the passion of the part he was encharged with. Jeffrey.