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underinvested

underinvested is the simple past and past participle of underinvest.

Meaning of underinvest

Verb

underinvest (third-person singular simple present underinvests, present participle underinvesting, simple past and past participle underinvested)

  1. 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
    Antonyms:
    overinvest

Questions about underinvested

What is underinvested the simple past and past participle of?
Underinvested is the simple past and past participle of underinvest.

Words near underinvested in the dictionary

  1. underinterpretations
  2. underinventive
  3. underinventiveness
  4. underinventoried
  5. underinvest
  6. underinvested
  7. underinvestigated
  8. underinvesting
  9. underinvestment
  10. underinvestments
  11. underinvestor

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Adapted from Wiktionary: underinvested (page history and authors); underinvest (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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