PRODUCTIONa way ofcompetinginbusinessbyproducingbasicgoodsatlowcost:Competitionpushescompaniestotake thelowroad,cuttingcostsandcompetingonprice.Comparehigh road(Definition oflow roadfrom theCambridge Business English Dictionary? Cambridge University Press)
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low roadThe area has relativelylowroadcongestion and its central location makes it a highly efficient base from which to service the whole country.FromWikipediaThis example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.Thelowroaddensities per 1000 people has created significant congestion and slow speeds on existing roads inside cities.FromWikipediaThis example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.He names them the high road andlowroad.FromWikipediaThis example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.In 1994 the station was resited to remove alowroadbridge.FromWikipediaThis example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.Infringements likelowroadoverbridges and foot overbridges that fouled with double-stacked containers were either dismantled or raised in years 2004-06 for running these freight trains.FromWikipediaThis example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.The establishment of the rural garment factories is a typical example of the 'lowroadto competition ' strategy prevalent in the garment industry.From theCambridge English CorpusThese may be grouped as strategies in line with a ' high road', and others which follow a 'lowroad' of competition.From theCambridge English CorpusThe hypothesis that local producers resort to the 'lowroad' to cope with imports does not apply to all firms.From theCambridge English CorpusTo follow sub-standard competitors down thelowroad, segmentalists would have had to violate their institutionalized, company-based moral economy.From theCambridge English CorpusThese strategies range from those that may be labelled ' high road', to those designated as the 'lowroad', of competition.From theCambridge English CorpusThese examples are from corpora and from sources on the web. Any opinions in the examples do not represent the opinion of the Cambridge Dictionary editors or of Cambridge University Press or its licensors.#https://dictionary.cambridge.org//dictionary/english/low-road##
