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underresource

underresource verb: to provide with too few resources.

Verb

underresource (third-person singular simple present underresources, present participle underresourcing, simple past and past participle underresourced)

  1. To provide with too few resources.
    • We cannot continue to overcommit, underresource, and underpay this instrument of national power.1999, United States Policy Toward Iraq
    • Hindered by this ignorance, they attack markets they can't win and ignore or underresource those they could win.2011, Brian D. Smith, Paul Raspin, Creating Market Insight, →ISBN

Forms of underresource

third-person singular presentunderresources
present participleunderresourcing
past participleunderresourced
pastunderresourced

Origin of underresource

From under + resource.

Questions about underresource

What does underresource mean?
Underresource means to provide with too few resources.
What part of speech is underresource?
Underresource is a verb.
What is the past tense of underresource?
The past tense of underresource is underresourced.

Words near underresource in the dictionary

  1. underreserve
  2. underreserved
  3. underreserves
  4. underreserving
  5. underresolved
  6. underresource
  7. underresourced
  8. underresources
  9. underresourcing
  10. underrespected
  11. underrespond

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