democratizing, for a price, pricing, underpriced, on-the-fly

  After experiencing almost unimaginable economic success in their youth, the now-aging small-factory owners of Ota have grown too entrenched in their ways to keep up with changes in the global economy. To hear Mr. Hosogai and many others here tell it, too many owners have pushed local workshops to collapse by trying to compete with mass-production countries like China and South Korea, which are beating Japan at its old game of underpricing rivals.大田的小工廠主們年輕時經歷了激動人心的經濟成功，年老後變得因循守舊，無法跟上全球經濟的轉變。按照細貝等許多人的說法，有太多的當地作坊把自己 逼到了崩潰的境地，因為它們試圖與中國、韓國等進行大規模製造的國家競爭。這些國家正採用日本的老手段——價格戰——來打敗日本。

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on-the-fly

In a hurry, on the run, as in I picked up some groceries on the fly. The transfer of this expression, which literally means "in midair or in flight," dates from the mid-1800s.
de·moc·ra·tize (dĭ-mŏk'rə-tīz')
tr.v., -tized, -tiz·ing, -tiz·es.
To make democratic.

democratization de·moc'ra·ti·za'tion (-tĭ-zā'shən) n.

price
(prīs)
n.

1. The amount as of money or goods, asked for or given in exchange for something else.
2. The cost at which something is obtained: believes that the price of success is hard work.
3. The cost of bribing someone: maintained that every person has a price.
4. A reward offered for the capture or killing of a person: a felon with a price on his head.
5. Archaic. Value or worth.

tr.v., priced, pric·ing, pric·es.

1. To fix or establish a price for: shoes that are priced at sixty dollars.
2. To find out the price of: spent the day pricing dresses.

idiom:
price out of the market

1. To eliminate the demand for (goods or services) by setting prices too high.

[Middle English pris, from Old French, from Latin pretium.]

priceable price'a·ble adj.
pricer pric'er n.

underpriced

 

音節

ùnder • príced

[形]不当に［普通より］安い値.