"price war" meaning in English

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Noun

Forms: price wars [plural]
Head templates: {{en-noun}} price war (plural price wars)
  1. A situation where commercial competitors repeatedly undercut each other's prices in order to attract buyers. Categories (topical): Economics, War Related terms: bidding war Translations (repeated undercutting of prices): 價格戰 (Chinese Mandarin), 价格战 (jiàgézhàn) (Chinese Mandarin), hintakilpailu (Finnish), priskrig [masculine] (Norwegian Bokmål), priskrig [masculine] (Norwegian Nynorsk), guerra de precios [feminine] (Spanish), priskrig [neuter] (Swedish)
    Sense id: en-price_war-en-noun-7KDURd4R Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header

Inflected forms

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