underassured
underassured adjective: insufficiently assured.
Adjective
underassured (comparative more underassured, superlative most underassured)
- Insufficiently assured.
- Agents, according to a critical account written in the 1930s, had 'convinced themselves, by long years of self-persuasion, that it is little short of immoral for a man to be underassured', and they tended to view lapses not as a sign of a real inability to pay, but as an indicator of the financial...1985, Paul A. Johnson, Saving and spending: the working-class economy in Britain, 1870-1939
- The overassured manager may not seek to appreciate all the risks entailed in an ambitious decision. But even when the risks are appreciated, the underassured manager may equally jeopardize the organization by failing to display the bias for action that is also essential.2005, Jonathan P. Doh, Stephen A. Stumpf, Handbook on Responsible Leadership and Governance in Global Business, →ISBN, pages 79–80
Forms of underassured
| comparative | more underassured |
|---|---|
| superlative | most underassured |
Origin of underassured
From under- + assured.
Questions about underassured
- What does underassured mean?
- Underassured means insufficiently assured.
- What part of speech is underassured?
- Underassured is an adjective.
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