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underpolicing

underpolicing is the present participle and gerund of underpolice.

Meaning of underpolice

Verb

underpolice (third-person singular simple present underpolices, present participle underpolicing, simple past and past participle underpoliced)

  1. (transitive) To police too little.
    • They don’t differ in terms of arrests for violent crime and property crime. However, we find that Black officers make less arrests related to drug offenses. There is this underpolicing argument that you’re making for drug offenses.2020 June 12, Kate Waldock and Luigi Zingales, “Should we defund the police?”, in Capitalisn't

Questions about underpolicing

What is underpolicing the present participle and gerund of?
Underpolicing is the present participle and gerund of underpolice.

Words near underpolicing in the dictionary

  1. underpointed
  2. underpointing
  3. underpoints
  4. underpolice
  5. underpoliced
  6. underpolicing
  7. underpolluted
  8. underpollution
  9. underpopulate
  10. underpopulated
  11. underpopulates

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Adapted from Wiktionary: underpolicing (page history and authors); underpolice (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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