price war

1. 1.

   intense competition in which competitors cut retail prices to gain business

   Synonymsprice competition

   Broadercompetition

Questions about price war

What does price war mean?

price war means "intense competition in which competitors cut retail prices to gain business".

What is another word for price war?

Close synonyms include price competition. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is price war a common word?

price war is banded "Uncommon" — turns up in careful writing rather than conversation. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.