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underproducing

underproducing is the present participle and gerund of underproduce.

Meaning of underproduce

Verb

underproduce (third-person singular simple present underproduces, present participle underproducing, simple past and past participle underproduced)

  1. To produce less than normal, or less than needed
    • It misdesigned goods, adversely selected technologies, misallocated and misremunerated factors of production, encouraged work to rule, underproduced, misdistributed outputs and was subject to a myriad of moral hazards.2009, Steven Rosefielde, Red Holocaust, page 240

Questions about underproducing

What is underproducing the present participle and gerund of?
Underproducing is the present participle and gerund of underproduce.

Words near underproducing in the dictionary

  1. underproduce
  2. underproduced
  3. underproducer
  4. underproducers
  5. underproduces
  6. underproducing
  7. underproduction
  8. underproductions
  9. underproductive
  10. underproductivity
  11. underproficient

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Adapted from Wiktionary: underproducing (page history and authors); underproduce (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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