MEANING
To report a smaller amount or lower frequency than actually exists or occurred.
Use it for
describing survey answers that state too little; explaining why recorded incidents underestimate actual events; identifying income reported below its true amount; distinguishing underestimation in reports from a genuinely low rateNames a directional reporting error in which the stated amount or frequency is too low. Writing functions: Research / Methodology.
Words that belong together
- underreport income
- underreport symptoms
- underreport the frequency of
On the page
Respondents may underreport drinking when they expect their answers to be judged.
The authors caution that complaint records underreport incidents that residents never formally disclose.
Nearby words
Word forms
- Base
- underreport
- Past tense
- underreported
- Past participle
- underreported
- Present participle
- underreporting
Full tense & aspect guide
- Present
- underreport
- Present continuous
- am/is/are underreporting
- Present perfect
- have/has underreported
- Present perfect continuous
- have/has been underreporting
- Past
- underreported
- Past continuous
- was/were underreporting
- Past perfect
- had underreported
- Past perfect continuous
- had been underreporting
- Future
- will underreport
- Future continuous
- will be underreporting
- Future perfect
- will have underreported
- Future perfect continuous
- will have been underreporting
Choose the auxiliary that agrees with your subject. These are constructions of one word, not separate entries.
Usage notes
Transitive or intransitive: underreport, underreports, underreported, underreported, underreporting; future will underreport. Also under-report; the hyphenated form is an alias. Register: neutral. Commonness: moderately common (qualitative editorial estimate, informed by dictionaries/corpus).
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