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underinvestment

underinvestment noun: an insufficient investment.

Noun

underinvestment (countable and uncountable, plural underinvestments)

  1. An insufficient investment.
    • The West of England Line has long been a Cinderella railway. Decades of patch-and-mend underinvestment have resulted in consistently poor performance.2026 February 18, Paul Clifton, “West of England Line problems laid bare”, in RAIL, number 1055, page 7

Forms of underinvestment

pluralunderinvestments

Origin of underinvestment

From under- + investment.

Questions about underinvestment

What does underinvestment mean?
Underinvestment means an insufficient investment.
What part of speech is underinvestment?
Underinvestment is a noun.
What is the plural of underinvestment?
The plural of underinvestment is underinvestments.

Words near underinvestment in the dictionary

  1. underinventoried
  2. underinvest
  3. underinvested
  4. underinvestigated
  5. underinvesting
  6. underinvestment
  7. underinvestments
  8. underinvestor
  9. underinvestors
  10. underinvests
  11. underinvolved

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