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Meaning of "underinvest" in the English dictionary

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PRONUNCIATION OF UNDERINVEST

underinvest  [ˌʌndərɪnˈvɛst] play
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GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF UNDERINVEST

noun
adjective
verb
adverb
pronoun
preposition
conjunction
determiner
exclamation
Underinvest is a verb.
The verb is the part of the sentence that is conjugated and expresses action and state of being.

See the conjugation of the verb underinvest in English.

WHAT DOES UNDERINVEST MEAN IN ENGLISH?

Definition of underinvest in the English dictionary

The definition of underinvest in the dictionary is to insufficiently invest or lay out money with the expectation of profit.


CONJUGATION OF THE VERB TO UNDERINVEST

PRESENT

Present
I underinvest
you underinvest
he/she/it underinvests
we underinvest
you underinvest
they underinvest
Present continuous
I am underinvesting
you are underinvesting
he/she/it is underinvesting
we are underinvesting
you are underinvesting
they are underinvesting
Present perfect
I have underinvested
you have underinvested
he/she/it has underinvested
we have underinvested
you have underinvested
they have underinvested
Present perfect continuous
I have been underinvesting
you have been underinvesting
he/she/it has been underinvesting
we have been underinvesting
you have been underinvesting
they have been underinvesting
Present tense is used to refer to circumstances that exist at the present time or over a period that includes the present time. The present perfect refers to past events, although it can be considered to denote primarily the resulting present situation rather than the events themselves.

PAST

Past
I underinvested
you underinvested
he/she/it underinvested
we underinvested
you underinvested
they underinvested
Past continuous
I was underinvesting
you were underinvesting
he/she/it was underinvesting
we were underinvesting
you were underinvesting
they were underinvesting
Past perfect
I had underinvested
you had underinvested
he/she/it had underinvested
we had underinvested
you had underinvested
they had underinvested
Past perfect continuous
I had been underinvesting
you had been underinvesting
he/she/it had been underinvesting
we had been underinvesting
you had been underinvesting
they had been underinvesting
Past tense forms express circumstances existing at some time in the past,

FUTURE

Future
I will underinvest
you will underinvest
he/she/it will underinvest
we will underinvest
you will underinvest
they will underinvest
Future continuous
I will be underinvesting
you will be underinvesting
he/she/it will be underinvesting
we will be underinvesting
you will be underinvesting
they will be underinvesting
Future perfect
I will have underinvested
you will have underinvested
he/she/it will have underinvested
we will have underinvested
you will have underinvested
they will have underinvested
Future perfect continuous
I will have been underinvesting
you will have been underinvesting
he/she/it will have been underinvesting
we will have been underinvesting
you will have been underinvesting
they will have been underinvesting
The future is used to express circumstances that will occur at a later time.

CONDITIONAL

Conditional
I would underinvest
you would underinvest
he/she/it would underinvest
we would underinvest
you would underinvest
they would underinvest
Conditional continuous
I would be underinvesting
you would be underinvesting
he/she/it would be underinvesting
we would be underinvesting
you would be underinvesting
they would be underinvesting
Conditional perfect
I would have underinvest
you would have underinvest
he/she/it would have underinvest
we would have underinvest
you would have underinvest
they would have underinvest
Conditional perfect continuous
I would have been underinvesting
you would have been underinvesting
he/she/it would have been underinvesting
we would have been underinvesting
you would have been underinvesting
they would have been underinvesting
Conditional or "future-in-the-past" tense refers to hypothetical or possible actions.

IMPERATIVE

Imperative
you underinvest
we let´s underinvest
you underinvest
The imperative is used to form commands or requests.
NONFINITE VERB FORMS
Infinitive
to underinvest
Past participle
underinvested
Present Participle
underinvesting
Infinitive shows the action beyond temporal perspective. The present participle or gerund shows the action during the session. The past participle shows the action after completion.

WORDS THAT RHYME WITH UNDERINVEST


best
bɛst
contest
ˈkɒntɛst
devest
dɪˈvɛst
disinvest
ˌdɪsɪnˈvɛst
divest
daɪˈvɛst
est
ɛst
fest
fɛst
guest
ɡɛst
invest
ɪnˈvɛst
jest
dʒɛst
processed
ˈprəʊsɛst
quest
kwɛst
reinvest
ˌriːɪnˈvɛst
request
rɪˈkwɛst
rest
rɛst
revest
riːˈvɛst
suggest
səˈdʒɛst
test
tɛst
undervest
ˈʌndəˌvɛst
vest
vɛst

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE UNDERINVEST

underhand chop
underhanded
underhandedly
underhandedness
underhonest
underhung
underinflated
underinflation
underinsure
underinsured
underinvestment
underived
underjaw
underkeep
underkeeper
underkill
underking
underkingdom
underlaid
underlain

WORDS THAT END LIKE UNDERINVEST

at the earliest
at the latest
biggest
bulletproof vest
for the best
forest
grape harvest
greatest
harvest
honest
interest
latest
life vest
on request
overharvest
postharvest
preharvest
rash vest
transvest
vine harvest

Synonyms and antonyms of underinvest in the English dictionary of synonyms

SYNONYMS

Translation of «underinvest» into 25 languages

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TRANSLATION OF UNDERINVEST

Find out the translation of underinvest to 25 languages with our English multilingual translator.
The translations of underinvest from English to other languages presented in this section have been obtained through automatic statistical translation; where the essential translation unit is the word «underinvest» in English.

Translator English - Chinese

投资不足
1,325 millions of speakers

Translator English - Spanish

subinvertir
570 millions of speakers

English

underinvest
510 millions of speakers

Translator English - Hindi

underinvest
380 millions of speakers
ar

Translator English - Arabic

نقص الاستثمارات
280 millions of speakers

Translator English - Russian

underinvest
278 millions of speakers

Translator English - Portuguese

investir menos
270 millions of speakers

Translator English - Bengali

underinvest
260 millions of speakers

Translator English - French

sous-investir
220 millions of speakers

Translator English - Malay

Underinvest
190 millions of speakers

Translator English - German

unterinvestieren
180 millions of speakers

Translator English - Japanese

過少投資する
130 millions of speakers

Translator English - Korean

과소 투자
85 millions of speakers

Translator English - Javanese

Underinvest
85 millions of speakers
vi

Translator English - Vietnamese

underinvest
80 millions of speakers

Translator English - Tamil

underinvest
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Marathi

अंडरव्हेस्ट
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Turkish

almazlarsa
70 millions of speakers

Translator English - Italian

underinvest
65 millions of speakers

Translator English - Polish

inwestują wystarczających środków
50 millions of speakers

Translator English - Ukrainian

underinvest
40 millions of speakers

Translator English - Romanian

investesc prea puțin
30 millions of speakers
el

Translator English - Greek

λιγότερες επενδύσεις
15 millions of speakers
af

Translator English - Afrikaans

underinvest
14 millions of speakers
sv

Translator English - Swedish

investerar för lite
10 millions of speakers
no

Translator English - Norwegian

underinvest
5 millions of speakers

Trends of use of underinvest

TRENDS

TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «UNDERINVEST»

The term «underinvest» is used very little and occupies the 163.104 position in our list of most widely used terms in the English dictionary.
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FREQUENCY OF USE OF THE TERM «UNDERINVEST» OVER TIME

The graph expresses the annual evolution of the frequency of use of the word «underinvest» during the past 500 years. Its implementation is based on analysing how often the term «underinvest» appears in digitalised printed sources in English between the year 1500 and the present day.

Examples of use in the English literature, quotes and news about underinvest

EXAMPLES

10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «UNDERINVEST»

Discover the use of underinvest in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to underinvest and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
1
Contract Law and Economics
This encourages the investor to underinvest in performance. The investor's incentive to invest is efficient when its incentive to overinvest is balanced by its incentive to underinvest. Edlin and Reichelstein notice that contracts subject to ...
Gerrit de Geest, 2011
2
Private Property and Takings Compensation: Theoretical ...
3.1.3 The Risk-Neutral Do Not Underinvest to Reduce Losses Owners underinvest when the marginal social benefit of investing is still larger than its marginal social cost. Risk-neutral owners will not underinvest to reduce losses. Following the ...
Yun-Chien Chang, 2013
3
Technological Change and the Environment
In other words, models should concentrate on the observation that markets underinvest in innovation and worry less about the economic rigor of the modeling approach used to achieve the underinvestment. Nordhaus's R&DICE model is a ...
Arnulf Grübler,, 2010
4
ECMT Round Tables Privatisation of Railways Report of the ...
Aware of this risk, the regulated firm is likely to underinvest. There may be some evidence that this is what has happened in the case of the recently privatised British Airport Authority. This analysis suggests that the unconstrained publicly ...
European Conference of Ministers of Transport, 1993
5
Microeconomic Theory: Basic Principles and Extensions
Country 1 should then underinvest in the export subsidy (i.e., not adopt it) to avoid overly aggressive price competition. E15.10 Entry ... On the other hand, if investment makes firm 1 “soft,” it should underinvest to deter entry. For example, if  ...
Walter Nicholson, Christopher Snyder, 2011
6
Wiley CPA Exam Review 2013, Business Environment and Concepts
High-risk divisions will overinvest in new projects and low-risk divisions will underinvest in new projects. b. High-risk divisions will underinvest in high-risk projects. c. Low-risk divisions will overinvest in low-risk projects. d. Low-risk divisions ...
O. Ray Whittington, 2012
7
Saskatchewan Prosperity: Building on Success
A tendency to underinvest One of the most marked outcomes from an economic landscape dominated by government business enterprises is their tendency to underinvest in capital (e.g., property, plant, and equipment) compared to similar ...
Niels Veldhuis, 2009
8
IOCB 2010 Industrial Organization: a Contract Based approach
If k1 makes firm 1 look tough but compete with strategic complements then it prefers to underinvest to avoid tough competition later; it mimics a “puppy dog”. • If k1 makes firm 1 look soft and it competes with strategic substitutes then firm 1 ...
9
Company Valuation and Information in Analyst Forecasts
Stockholders underinvest if their optimal retention ratio is smaller than the government's optimal retention ratio. If the government HR function were below the stockholder HR function for all admissible configurations of the relevant valuation ...
Daniel Kreutzmann, 2010
10
The Right Skills for the Job?: Rethinking Training Policies ...
In labor markets that are not perfectly competitive both firms and employees can underinvest in training. Firms underinvest because they cannot fully appropriate the returns to investment in training, since employees can be poached by other ...
Rita Almeida, Jere Behrman, David Robalino, 2012

10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «UNDERINVEST»

Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term underinvest is used in the context of the following news items.
1
Study: Firms “underinvest” in long-term cancer research
Pharmaceutical firms “underinvest” in long-term research to develop new cancer-fighting drugs due to the greater time and cost required to conduct such ... «MIT News, Jul 15»
2
4 Reasons Why A Low Oil Price Is Great News For Long-Term …
And with new projects being put on hold, there's a risk that the world could begin to underinvest in oil, which would reduce supply. At the same time, demand will ... «The Motley Fool UK, Jul 15»
3
How the Navy SEALs Train for Leadership Excellence
As an educator, I fear world-class business schools and high-performance businesses overinvest in “education” and dramatically underinvest in “training. «blogs.hbr.org, May 15»
4
OPEC Says Oil Could Reach $200 Per Barrel: Here's Why Investors …
Given the long-term forecast of rising global needs for oil, long-term underinvestment might indeed lead the world oil market to swing from a glut to a shortage ... «Motley Fool, Feb 15»
5
Can Nonprofit Boards Afford To Underinvest In Management …
The findings suggest that chronic underinvestment in (management) leadership development...(may risk) the sector's capabilities to fulfill emerging missions ... «Huffington Post, Dec 14»
6
Asian Economies Underinvest in Climate Change Response, Oxfam
Many governments in developing Asia, including Indonesia and the Philippines, continue to under invest in projects that would improve their resiliency to climate ... «Wall Street Journal, Nov 14»
7
Indonesian firms still underinvest compared to ASEAN peers
In relation to its regional peers, Indonesian firms may still be underinvesting as a consequence of limited capital spending, conservative balance sheet ... «Jakarta Post, Oct 14»
8
Chronic underinvestment by U.S. companies captured in one chart
Data out early Wednesday showed that core capital-goods orders dropped in February for the fourth time in six months, a worrying sign that U.S. businesses ... «MarketWatch, Mar 14»
9
Why Do State and Local School Agencies Underinvest in Evidence?
In the United States, we entrust state and local leaders to make most consequential decisions affecting schools. It's ironic, then, that the federal government ... «Brookings Institution, Mar 14»
10
Bill Gates and 'Catalytic Philanthropy'
Although aid from the rich world saves a lot of lives, governments habitually underinvest in research and development, especially for the poor. For one thing ... «Acton Institute, Nov 13»

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