Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- transitive & intransitive verb To produce in a quantity insufficient to meet the need or demand.
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- verb To
produce less than normal, or less than needed
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- verb produce below capacity or demand
Etymologies
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Examples
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Altruism causes its object to underproduce, meaning that the total value added in the economy is lower than it could be.
The Volokh Conspiracy » Competing Explanations for the Oppressive Nature of Socialism 2010
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Altruism causes its object to underproduce, meaning that the total value added in the economy is lower than it could be.
The Volokh Conspiracy » Competing Explanations for the Oppressive Nature of Socialism 2010
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As a result of these basic facts, producers of information operating entirely in a free market will always underproduce because they can never recover the full value of what they produce through the market alone.
Peter M. Shane: We Need Your Input on Community Information Needs 2009
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The obvious answer is that evil corporations purposefully underproduce to keep prices too high for hard work middle class families.
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Sometimes I overproduce, sometimes I underproduce.
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Sometimes I overproduce, sometimes I underproduce.
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"As long as we cynically underproduce doctors and nurses in this country, the world's poorest countries will pay the price," he added.
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'We need to change the global financial system and the way it operates today, when we Americans overconsume and underproduce, and the Chinese and the Japanese overproduce and underconsume.
Global Paradigms 2009
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Willis McGahee: Convinces industrial sector to follow his example and underproduce waste
Kissing Suzy Kolber 2008
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