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underinvests

underinvests is the third-person singular simple present indicative 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 underinvests

What is underinvests the third-person singular simple present indicative of?
Underinvests is the third-person singular simple present indicative of underinvest.

Words near underinvests in the dictionary

  1. underinvesting
  2. underinvestment
  3. underinvestments
  4. underinvestor
  5. underinvestors
  6. underinvests
  7. underinvolved
  8. underirrigate
  9. underirrigated
  10. underirrigates
  11. underirrigating

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