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underorder

underorder verb: to order too little or too few.

Verb

underorder (third-person singular simple present underorders, present participle underordering, simple past and past participle underordered)

  1. (ambitransitive) To order too little or too few.
    • Having underordered the popular new toys, we ran out within half a day.

Noun

underorder (plural underorders)

  1. An order for too little or too few.

Forms of underorder

Verb
third-person singular presentunderorders
present participleunderordering
past participleunderordered
pastunderordered
Noun
pluralunderorders

Origin of underorder

From under- + order.

Questions about underorder

What does underorder mean?
Underorder means to order too little or too few.
What part of speech is underorder?
Underorder can be a verb or a noun.
What is the past tense of underorder?
The past tense of underorder is underordered.

Words near underorder in the dictionary

  1. underoptimization
  2. underoptimize
  3. underoptimized
  4. underoptimizes
  5. underoptimizing
  6. underorder
  7. underordered
  8. underordering
  9. underorders
  10. underorganization
  11. underorganized

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