That is, every deal must in total be either overbid or underbid. They could subcontract their work and underbid other white artisans. In winning the contract, he underbid more established firms by hiring unemployed longshoremen from Montreal. It substantially underbid more established shipyards, offering to build the ship for $87,500. The terrain proved tough to excavate, and vastly underbid the project. The relatively young Osman underbid his only competitor by one-half. The idea behind "Ramsch" is to punish players who underbid their hands. In the South, they underbid slave labor. On the third hand, the players collectively underbid (10 of 11). In 1965, Hiller was underbid by Hughes and the Army selected Hughes' YOH-6. Months later Chrysler underbid GM in the new round of proposals.