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underplanning

underplanning is the present participle and gerund of underplan.

Meaning of underplan

Verb

underplan (third-person singular simple present underplans, present participle underplanning, simple past and past participle underplanned)

  1. To plan insufficiently.
    • A manager who underplans and then overachieves his plan has outrun it and is left with no plan at all.1983, Mack Hanan, Leading edge growth strategies: new approaches for accelerated business growth and premium profits in the next twenty years
    Antonyms:
    overplan

Questions about underplanning

What is underplanning the present participle and gerund of?
Underplanning is the present participle and gerund of underplan.

Words near underplanning in the dictionary

  1. underplacements
  2. underplaces
  3. underplacing
  4. underplan
  5. underplanned
  6. underplanning
  7. underplans
  8. underplant
  9. underplanted
  10. underplanting
  11. underplantings

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Adapted from Wiktionary: underplanning (page history and authors); underplan (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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