underinvest
English
Etymology
under- + invest
Verb
underinvest (third-person singular simple present underinvests, present participle underinvesting, simple past and past participle underinvested)
- (business) To invest insufficiently
- 2009 January 17, Nils Pratley, “Nils Pratley on Saturday: How to change unjust deserts”, in The Guardian:
- Rentokil was exposed as a business whose managers had underinvested to keep up with past glories.
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