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underdevelopments

underdevelopments is the plural of underdevelopment.

Meaning of underdevelopment

Noun

underdevelopment (countable and uncountable, plural underdevelopments)

  1. The condition of being underdeveloped.
    • Drawing on insights from thinkers such as Karl Marx, Aimé Césaire and Mahatma Gandhi, they pointed out that underdevelopment in the global South was not a natural condition, but a consequence of the way Western powers had organised the world system over hundreds of years.2017, Jason Hickel, “Why are Poor Countries Poor?”, in The Divide […] , London: William Heinemann, →ISBN

Questions about underdevelopments

What is underdevelopments the plural of?
Underdevelopments is the plural of underdevelopment.

Words near underdevelopments in the dictionary

  1. underdevelop
  2. underdeveloped
  3. underdevelopedness
  4. underdeveloping
  5. underdevelopment
  6. underdevelopments
  7. underdevelops
  8. underdeviation
  9. underdeviations
  10. underdevil
  11. underdevils

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