undevelopment
undevelopment noun: the absence of development.
Noun
undevelopment (countable and uncountable, plural undevelopments)
- The absence of development.
- For the “necessary” reliance upon aid, expertise, equipment from abroad—whether from East or West—which undevelopment seems to dictate raises again the specter of “compromise” that threatens to get out of control, of compromise that finds the means coming to shape the ends rather than the opposite.1985, John S. Saul, editor, A Difficult Road: The Transition to Socialism in Mozambique, New York: Monthly Review Press, →ISBN, page 23
Forms of undevelopment
| plural | undevelopments |
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Origin of undevelopment
From un- + development.
Questions about undevelopment
- What does undevelopment mean?
- Undevelopment means the absence of development.
- What part of speech is undevelopment?
- Undevelopment is a noun.
- What is the plural of undevelopment?
- The plural of undevelopment is undevelopments.
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