См. также: занижать важность, занижать планку, занимать место на свидетельской трибуне, заново переживать кошмар
So there is an incentive on both sides to understate the price in a bid to avoid the taxes, and pay the difference between actual and declared values in illegal money. (BBC)
Recently, a former HS2 director told the BBC’s Panorama programme that the company had massively understated the price of property and compensation along the route ... (The Guardian)
The seller must be forever uncertain about whether he set the price too low and left money on the table or whether he set the price too high and lost some ... (Wharton Executive Education)
