Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

underresource

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English

Syllables: un-der-re-source
IPA

16

Scrabble Score

13

Letters

4

Syllables

8

Unique Chars

Meaning

verb

To provide with too few resources.

Example Sentences

"We cannot continue to overcommit, underresource, and underpay this instrument of national power."
"Hindered by this ignorance, they attack markets they can't win and ignore or underresource those they could win."
"Some of these challenges are obviously specific to particular formulas for taxation or redistribution, others derive from more general trends in demographic developments or industrial performance, while still others – such as the tendency of politicians to underresource their welfare state institutions and then use borrowing to finance the resulting overcommitments – are ubiquitous."

Etymology

From under + resource.

Inflected Forms

underresources (present, singular) underresourcing (participle, present) underresourced (participle, past) underresourced (past)

Questions

What does underresource mean?: To provide with too few resources.
Where does underresource come from?: From under + resource.

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