underresource

present singular third person underresources · participle present underresourcing · participle past underresourced · past underresourced

1. To provide with too few resources.

   We cannot continue to overcommit, underresource, and underpay this instrument of national power.

   1999, United States Policy Toward Iraq

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   Hindered by this ignorance, they attack markets they can't win and ignore or underresource those they could win.

   2011, Brian D. Smith, Paul Raspin, Creating Market Insight, →ISBN

   Some of these challenges are obviously specific to particular formulas for taxation or redistribution, others derive from more general trends in demographic developments or industrial performance, while still others – such as the tendency of politicians to underresource their welfare state institutions and then use borrowing to finance the resulting overcommitments – are ubiquitous.

   2011, Erik Jones, Paul M. Heywood, Martin Rhodes, Developments in European Politics, →ISBN