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undersupply

undersupply verb: to provide with insufficient supplies; to supply inadequately.

Verb

undersupply (third-person singular simple present undersupplies, present participle undersupplying, simple past and past participle undersupplied)

  1. To provide with insufficient supplies; to supply inadequately
    • As a result, clinics and hospitals are understaffed and undersupplied.2007 April 18, Elisabeth Rosenthal, “Iraq’s Public Health Services Severely Strained, Group Says”, in New York Times

Noun

undersupply (countable and uncountable, plural undersupplies)

  1. An inadequate supply.

undersupply meaning in Kannada

undersupply in Kannada

ಖೋತಾ ಸರಬರಾಜು

Forms of undersupply

Verb
third-person singular presentundersupplies
present participleundersupplying
past participleundersupplied
pastundersupplied
Noun
pluralundersupplies

Origin of undersupply

From under- + supply.

Questions about undersupply

What does undersupply mean?
Undersupply means to provide with insufficient supplies; to supply inadequately.
What is undersupply in Kannada?
Undersupply in Kannada is ಖೋತಾ ಸರಬರಾಜು. See Undersupply meaning in Kannada.
What part of speech is undersupply?
Undersupply can be a verb or a noun.
What is the past tense of undersupply?
The past tense of undersupply is undersupplied.

Words near undersupply in the dictionary

  1. undersupervisor
  2. undersupervisors
  3. undersupplementation
  4. undersupplied
  5. undersupplies
  6. undersupply
  7. undersupplying
  8. undersupport
  9. undersupported
  10. undersupporting
  11. undersupports

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Adapted from Wiktionary: undersupply (page history and authors); undersupply (Kannada Wiktionary) (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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