Underassured
adj ·Rare ·Advanced level
Definitions
- 1 Insufficiently assured.
"Agents, according to a critical account written in the 1930s, had 'convinced themselves, by long years of self-persuasion, that it is little short of immoral for a man to be underassured', and they tended to view lapses not as a sign of a real inability to pay, but as an indicator of the financial recidivism of the masses."
Example
More examples"Agents, according to a critical account written in the 1930s, had 'convinced themselves, by long years of self-persuasion, that it is little short of immoral for a man to be underassured', and they tended to view lapses not as a sign of a real inability to pay, but as an indicator of the financial recidivism of the masses."
Etymology
From under- + assured.
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