underinvest
underinvest verb: to invest insufficiently.
Verb
underinvest (third-person singular simple present underinvests, present participle underinvesting, simple past and past participle underinvested)
- To invest insufficiently.
- Rentokil was exposed as a business whose managers had underinvested to keep up with past glories.2009 January 17, Nils Pratley, “Nils Pratley on Saturday: How to change unjust deserts”, in The Guardian
- The company also underinvested in creating an ecosystem for people to easily expand Alexa’s abilities, in the way that Apple had done with its App Store, which helped stoke interest in the iPhone, the person said.2023 March 15, Brian X. Chen, Nico Grant, Karen Weise, “How Siri, Alexa and Google Assistant Lost the A.I. Race”, in The New York Times, →ISSN
- Antonyms:
- overinvest
Antonyms of underinvest
Forms of underinvest
| third-person singular present | underinvests |
|---|---|
| present participle | underinvesting |
| past participle | underinvested |
| past | underinvested |
Origin of underinvest
From under- + invest.
Questions about underinvest
- What does underinvest mean?
- Underinvest means to invest insufficiently.
- What part of speech is underinvest?
- Underinvest is a verb.
- What is the past tense of underinvest?
- The past tense of underinvest is underinvested.
Words near underinvest in the dictionary
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