underbid-v; 2 Senses

Sense Number 1: bid lower than an item's worth

Examples:
Blame the consultants who drastically underbid the project.
They regularly underbid contracts.
He often underbid to build up his business and reputation.
With this pool of slave labor you got, you can underbid any contractor in town.

Mappings:
VerbNet: NP
FrameNet: NP
PropBank: underbid.01
WordNet 3.0 Sense Numbers: 1, 3

Sense Number 2: bid lower than a competing bidder

Examples:
Access to state financing allows them to underbid private firms.
I think they could be underbid by workers.
Microsoft underbid IBM and SuSE by $ 11.9 million
They are aggressively underbid competitors seeking Federal oil contracts.

Mappings:
VerbNet: NP
FrameNet: NP
PropBank: underbid.01
WordNet 3.0 Sense Numbers: 2