predatory pricing

predatory pricing
A sales *pricing policy intended to undercut competitors’ prices. Predatory pricing can be undertaken to achieve any or all of the following objectives: (i) to maintain or increase *market share, (ii) to drive competitors out of a *market, and (iii) to erect *barriers to entry to a market.

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  • predatory pricing — noun A strategy of selling a good or service at a very low price so as to drive ones competitors out of business (at which point one can raise ones prices more freely) …   Wiktionary

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