price war

noun

: commercial competition characterized by the repeated cutting of prices below those of competitors

Examples of price war in a Sentence

The airlines are engaged in another price war.

Recent Examples on the Web

China’s electric vehicle price wars have spilled into the attention economy. —Brendan Ruberry, semafor.com, 19 May 2026

Aside from the impact of the Strait of Hormuz blockade, China is indeed facing other economic headwinds – from self-defeating price wars in its manufacturing and service sectors, to stubbornly weak domestic consumption and still-high youth employment. —Steven Jiang, CNN Money, 13 May 2026

Turner, who early on donned a uniform and managed one game, helped open baseball’s free-agent price wars by signing pitcher Andy Messersmith. —David Bauder, Chicago Tribune, 6 May 2026

Why The Falling Prices Are Not A Bearish Signal Step back from which company is winning and look at the underlying dynamic the price war reveals. —Jon Markman, Forbes.com, 28 Apr. 2026

Word History

First Known Use

1895, in the meaning defined above

Rhymes for price war

• albacore
• alongshore
• antiwar
• anymore
• carnivore
• commodore
• dinosaur
• evermore
• furthermore
• guarantor
• herbivore
• heretofore