underinvestment
noun
un·der·in·vest·ment
ˌən-dər-in-ˈves(t)-mənt 
: an insufficient amount of investment
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Since Russia's full-scale invasion of Ukraine in 2022, German leaders have been pushing to modernize and expand the armed forces after years of underinvestment.
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Jordan King, MSNBC Newsweek, 29 Aug. 2025
Yet, relative underinvestment in open-source AI and critical infrastructure, driven by fear and by a search for short-term profits, has created an opening for others to set standards, shape ecosystems and define the direction of future technologies.
—Kevin Korte, Forbes.com, 7 Aug. 2025
It had been battered by drought, underinvestment and absentee ownership.
—Ascend Agency, New York Daily News, 31 July 2025
Some attribute the slow progress to insufficient standardization and sharing of learnings across communities, or the underinvestment in SDOH data and measurement.
—Harvard Business Review, 3 July 2025
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Jordan King, MSNBC Newsweek, 29 Aug. 2025
Yet, relative underinvestment in open-source AI and critical infrastructure, driven by fear and by a search for short-term profits, has created an opening for others to set standards, shape ecosystems and define the direction of future technologies.
—Kevin Korte, Forbes.com, 7 Aug. 2025
It had been battered by drought, underinvestment and absentee ownership.
—Ascend Agency, New York Daily News, 31 July 2025
Some attribute the slow progress to insufficient standardization and sharing of learnings across communities, or the underinvestment in SDOH data and measurement.
—Harvard Business Review, 3 July 2025
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“Underinvestment.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/underinvestment. Accessed 10 Sep. 2025.
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