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underresource

Verb CEFR C1

Definitions

To provide with too few resources.

Examples

“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.”

CEFR level

C1
Advanced
This word is part of the CEFR C1 vocabulary — advanced level.
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