underinvestment

noun

un·​der·​in·​vest·​ment ˌən-dər-in-ˈves(t)-mənt 

: an insufficient amount of investment

Example Sentences

Recent Examples on the Web

Thanks to years of underinvestment in public housing, low interest rates and a tidal wave of Chinese investment in post-2008-era Hong Kong, housing prices in the city have reached excruciating levels. Nathaniel Taplin, WSJ, 8 Nov. 2022

Chronic underinvestment in production now leaves the world at risk of sustained oil and gas shortages. Vivek Ramaswamy And David Sokol, WSJ, 24 Oct. 2022

This is, instead, down to chronic underinvestment in infrastructure by the U.K. Government and Network Rail. Gus Alexiou, Forbes, 26 June 2022

In some communities, demographics and the historic underinvestment in schools loomed large, superintendents said. Fox News, 21 Oct. 2022

In some communities, demographics and the historic underinvestment in schools loomed large, superintendents said. Hartford Courant, 21 Oct. 2022

In some communities, demographics and the historic underinvestment in schools loomed large, superintendents said. Jocelyn Gecker, Fortune, 21 Oct. 2022

Significant data gaps — resulting from decades of underinvestment in public health — have undercut the government response to the COVID-19 pandemic and now to monkeypox. Sharon Lafraniere, BostonGlobe.com, 20 Sep. 2022

Decades of underinvestment in public health information systems has crippled efforts to understand the pandemic, stranding crucial data in incompatible data systems so outmoded that information often must be repeatedly typed in by hand. Sharon Lafraniere, BostonGlobe.com, 20 Sep. 2022

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Word History

First Known Use

1940, in the meaning defined above