The most common and most likely answer to this crossword clue is the 8 letter word UNDERCUT
I've seen this crossword clue in Financial Times
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More clues leading to the result UNDERCUT
- Meat insufficiently reduced in price?
- Insufficiently sliced steak
- Be less than complete without article from Berlin
- Charge less than Greek character returning with reduction
- Offer at a lower price than tenderloin?
- Brisket perhaps that’s sold too cheap?
- What’s offered at a lower price than a piece of sirloin?
- Meat to sell at a bargain price?
- As a business person try to outmanoeuvre strike
- Behind Umbertha’s cover, crude novel hidden amidst books sold cheaply
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The straight part
We know that "Charge less than" is the straight/definition part of the clue. The straight part is often a synonym or definition, in this case charge less than = undercut.The cryptic/wordplay part
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What does UNDERCUT mean?
UNDERCUT noun- A cut made in the lower part of something; the material so removed.
- The notch cut in a tree to direct its fall when being felled.
- The underside of a sirloin of beef; the fillet.
- A hairstyle that is shaved or clipped short on the sides and kept long on the top.
- A blow dealt upward.
- To sell (something) at a lower price, or to work for lower wages, than a competitor.
- To create an overhang by cutting away material from underneath.
- To undermine.
- To strike a heavy blow upward.
- Produced by undercutting.
- Designed so as to cut from the underside.
- Having the parts in relief cut under.