Undevelopment
noun ·Rare ·Advanced level
Definitions
- 1 The absence of development. countable, uncountable
"For the “necessary” reliance upon aid, expertise, equipment from abroad—whether from East or West—which undevelopment seems to dictate raises again the specter of “compromise” that threatens to get out of control, of compromise that finds the means coming to shape the ends rather than the opposite."
Example
More examples"For the “necessary” reliance upon aid, expertise, equipment from abroad—whether from East or West—which undevelopment seems to dictate raises again the specter of “compromise” that threatens to get out of control, of compromise that finds the means coming to shape the ends rather than the opposite."
Etymology
From un- + development.
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