underdistribute

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verb

To distribute too little, or not widely enough.

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Meanings

verbunderdistribute (third-person singular simple present underdistributes, present participle underdistributing, simple past and past participle underdistributed)

present singular third person underdistributes · participle present underdistributing · participle past underdistributed · past underdistributed

  1. To distribute too little, or not widely enough.

    Among the underdistributed films four deserve mention here: Otar Ioseliani's Pastorale […], which had been released only in Moscow in a single print; […]

    2009, Nancy Condee, The Imperial Trace: Recent Russian Cinema, page 258
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    A foundation working to the dollar may find it has underdistributed or overdistributed upon final calculation. There is much work required for but no benefit obtained from a perfectly calculated distribution figure.

    2008, Jerry J. McCoy, Kathryn W. Miree, Family Foundation Handbook 2009, pages 7–56

Origin

From under- + distribute.

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Chicago

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