lowball

lowball

美 ['l??b?:l] 　英 ['l??b?:l]

• v.有意壓低（成本、價值等的）估價；虛報低價
• 網絡虛低價；向虛報低價；虛假低價

詞形變化

過去分詞：lowballed  現在分詞：lowballing  第三人稱單數：lowballs  

英漢解釋

v.	1. to deliberately quote a price or estimate that is lower than the eventual cost

例句

America satisfied a minimum requirement of coming to Copenhagen with a defined pledge to cut emissions, but it was a lowball offer.

美國滿足了帶著削減排放保證參加哥本哈根峰會的最低要求，但是帶來的是個虛報低價。

This is different; it looks more like the Groupon hybrid of commerce and advertising, lowball commerce as advertising.

但兩者不同，Places看起來更像是商業和廣告的團購雜交，把虛報低價作為廣告。

Make a lowball offer and, again, you'll leave plenty of room for appreciation.

再等一個超低價，那么，甚至潛力就會很大。

JPMorgan Chase made a lowball offer for WaMu soon after buying Bear Stearns, but was rebuffed.

（摩根大通在收購貝爾斯登后很快提出以低價收購互助銀行，但遭到后者拒絕）。

Employees are sick and tired of tough conditions and lowball offers from prospective employers.

員工受不了各種苛刻條件，想跳槽，可能的未來雇主又壓低起薪。

Grumblers complain that they're competing with offshore workers who give lowball figures to win assignments.

那些愛發牢騷的人就認為他們在和一些通過虛擬報價贏得工作任務的人競爭。

Rather than immediately reject or accept a lowball deal, you should mount a careful counterattack, experts recommend.

專家建議，面對公司開出的低薪，你應該謹慎地予以“反擊”，而不是直截了當地拒絕或者接受。

But it's striking how many people you meet in Beijing who say official statistics lowball the true inflation rate.

很多人議論，官方數據在通貨膨脹率統計上作假，這同樣令人吃驚。

So employers feel they can get away with lowball offers.

于是，老板們覺得開低薪水也照樣能請到人。