underproduce

English

Etymology

From under- +‎ produce.

Verb

underproduce (third-person singular simple present underproduces, present participle underproducing, simple past and past participle underproduced)

1. To produce less than normal, or less than needed
   • 2009, Steven Rosefielde, Red Holocaust, page 240:

     It misdesigned goods, adversely selected technologies, misallocated and misremunerated factors of production, encouraged work to rule, underproduced, misdistributed outputs and was subject to a myriad of moral hazards.

Related terms

• underproducer

Anagrams

• unreproduced