To provide insufficient funding for an activity’s relevant needs or intended functions.
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Words that belong together
- underfund a service
- underfund a project
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The authority underfunded the service relative to the obligations it had retained.
The project was underfunded once the additional quality checks became part of its required scope.
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Word forms
- Base
- underfund
- Past tense
- underfunded
- Past participle
- underfunded
- Present participle
- underfunding
Full tense & aspect guide
- Present
- underfund
- Present continuous
- am/is/are underfunding
- Present perfect
- have/has underfunded
- Present perfect continuous
- have/has been underfunding
- Past
- underfunded
- Past continuous
- was/were underfunding
- Past perfect
- had underfunded
- Past perfect continuous
- had been underfunding
- Future
- will underfund
- Future continuous
- will be underfunding
- Future perfect
- will have underfunded
- Future perfect continuous
- will have been underfunding
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Usage notes
Primary category: economics / business / social science. Forms: underfund; underfunds; underfunded; underfunded; underfunding Legacy lexical fields mirror sense 1 only. Use numbered sense fields for all meanings. Established modern English lexical item. No separate regional spelling or grammatical inflection entry. Writing functions: economic process explanation, financial distinction, incentive analysis, institutional change. Disciplines: economics, business, public policy. Commonness: moderately common. Third-person singular: underfunds.
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