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What does Sandbagging mean?

The act of deliberately underestimating one's expected sales or performance to make it easier to reach targets or appear more successful later.

Sandbagging in a sentence
Management suspected the sales team was Sandbagging their forecasts to make their quotas easier to hit.

Sandbagging in German, French, Spanish and Italian

German
Sandbagging
also Absichtliches Tiefstapeln

Bewusstes Untertreiben der eigenen Prognosen, um Ziele sicher zu erreichen.

French
Sandbagging
also Déclaration de sous-performance

Fait de sous-estimer volontairement ses prévisions de vente.

Spanish
Subestimar deliberadamente
also Ocultar el potencial

Subestimar deliberadamente el potencial para superar metas fácilmente.

Italian
Sandbagging
also Sottostimare deliberatamente

Pratica di fornire previsioni basse per apparire più efficienti a fine periodo.

Common phrases with Sandbagging

  • suspected of sandbagging
  • forecasts sandbagging
  • hit quotas sandbagging

Synonyms and opposites for Sandbagging

  • Synonym Underpromising
  • Synonym Lowballing
  • Opposite Overforecasting

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