Meanings
nounundevelopment (countable and uncountable, plural undevelopments)
plural undevelopments
- countableuncountableThe absence of development.
For the “necessary” reliance upon aid, expertise, equipment from abroad—whether from East or West—which undevelopment seems to dictate raises again the specter of “compromise” that threatens to get out of control, of compromise that finds the means coming to shape the ends rather than the opposite.
1985, John S. Saul, editor, A Difficult Road: The Transition to Socialism in Mozambique, New York: Monthly Review Press, →ISBN, page 23
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“undevelopment.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/undevelopment. Accessed November 3, 2026.
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