Definition of underinvestment
: an insufficient amount of investment
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And yet, the violence and underinvestment continue.
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An example of the looming threats from the nation’s crumbling infrastructure, the often unseen system of more than 230 locks along 12,000 miles of river is at risk of failing in places like Pittsburgh from decades of underinvestment.
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But the Metro board, COG and other stakeholders including business and labor leaders have all endorsed General Manager Paul J. Wiedefeld’s request for an additional $500 million a year to make up for decades of underinvestment.
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This represents a significant underinvestment in banks by a pool of funds worth over $300 billion.
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The hurricane destroyed an electrical grid that was already vulnerable from years of neglect and underinvestment, knocking out power to most of the Caribbean island and its 3.4 million residents.
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City and state officials have come under increasing pressure in recent months to fix New York City’s subway system, which is more than 100 years old and strained by increasing ridership and years of underinvestment in repairs and maintenance.
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A more sensible approach would recognize the increasing problem of concentration of economic power, the decline in worker power, and dangerous underinvestment in America’s future.
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As Germany’s economy began to suffer the effects of years of public underinvestment, France’s new economic vigour challenged German dominance.
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First Known Use of underinvestment
1940
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