underproduce

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English

Etymology

From under- +‎ produce.

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Verb

underproduce (third-person singular simple present underproduces, present participle underproducing, simple past and past participle underproduced)

  1. To produce less than normal, or less than needed
    • 2009, Steven Rosefielde, Red Holocaust, page 240:
      It misdesigned goods, adversely selected technologies, misallocated and misremunerated factors of production, encouraged work to rule, underproduced, misdistributed outputs and was subject to a myriad of moral hazards.

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