Underinvest

verb

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Definitions

Verb
  1. 1
    To invest insufficiently.

    "Rentokil was exposed as a business whose managers had underinvested to keep up with past glories."

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"Rentokil was exposed as a business whose managers had underinvested to keep up with past glories."

Etymology

From under- + invest.

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