to dump
74
6.7
- verb
- /dʌmp/
- Specialized
:
practicar el dumping
- In a bid to gain a competitive edge, the retailer began to dump last season's clothing at rock-bottom prices.
- dumped prices
- dumped goods
- dumped imports
Examples
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Our concern is that someone might dump them on the market to depress prices or...
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Each of the New York and Chicago companies would be dumping if it met the other's local prices.
Academic text (1991) -
We're going to cut our losses and dump the account.
Fiction book (2000) -
Instead of storing even more, I'll just dump at lower prices.
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The court found that U.S. producers were dumping these products in Canada.
Academic text (1991) -
Their costs were low, and they could afford to dump chips (sell them below cost) to win markets overseas.
Academic text (1994) -
The company decided to dump excess inventory at discounted prices to attract more customers.
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To quickly clear his stock, he opted to dump old electronics at a fraction of their original cost.
Synonyms
28
4.4
Sell goods or services at a lower price than a competitor
3
5.2
Sell something for less than its normal market price
1
4.7
Sell goods or services at a lower price than a competitor
Antonyms
Phrasal Verbs
Compounds
- Jargon
1
9.5
A plan that uses false news to raise a stock price and sell shares, leaving other investors with losses
- Specialized
A file that shows what is in a computer's memory when a program crashes to help find errors
How Cheap
Surface Forms
Etymology
The business sense of dump — selling goods very cheaply — grew from the idea of getting rid of things, like 'dumping' them out; so to dump products is to sell them off to clear them away.