underprovide

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English

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Etymology

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From under- +‎ provide.

Verb

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underprovide (third-person singular simple present underprovides, present participle underproviding, simple past and past participle underprovided)

  1. To inadequately provide.
    • 2003, Inge Kaul, Providing Global Public Goods: Managing Globalization, page 171:
      Underproviding malaria control in Sub-Saharan Africa cuts output by about 17 percent a year.