Undercount

noun, verb

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Definitions

Noun
  1. 1
    An incorrect count that is too low.

    "And that, Lady Darvish thought, was almost certainly an undercount."

Verb
  1. 1
    To count to an insufficient degree; to count one thing disproportionately less than another

    "But minority stations have claimed that they are undercounted in the new system, in part because Arbitron has struggled to include representative numbers of young and minority listeners in its sample."

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"But minority stations have claimed that they are undercounted in the new system, in part because Arbitron has struggled to include representative numbers of young and minority listeners in its sample."

Etymology

From under- + count.

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