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⚠️ Not enough ⚠️ To give too little
to undersupply

to undersupply

5.3
To give less of something than people need
  • verb
  • /ˌʌndərsəˈplaɪ/
translation icon : proveer insuficientemente
  • Not unless you're going to be entirely inhumane (which, granted, undersupplying machines to the tune of a 9-hour line is completely symptomatic of anyway, but...).

soldiers in Afghanistan and Iraq complained in the past about being undersupplied.

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Examples

  • The charity aims to address the issue of undersupply of clean water in rural areas by building new wells.

  • But as it stands today, they they're going to be like, real estate's going to continue to be undersupplied for the foreseeable future.

    Ryan Pineda

  • Many companies tend to undersupply their products during peak demand periods, leading to frustrated customers.

  • When the factory undersupplied the order, the retailer faced delays in delivering products to their customers.

Synonyms

to underproduce
vsto undersupply
1 6.5

To make less than is needed

refers to supplying less overall rather than only making less
to scant
vsto undersupply
7.3

To give less than is needed

focuses on supplying less than needed to meet demand
to underfeed
vsto undersupply
  • Specialized
6.3

To give a machine less material than it needs

applies broadly to providing too little, not just material to machines
to underfill
vsto undersupply
6.5

To put less filling into something than required

is about supplying too little in general, not only filling containers

Antonyms

to oversupply
4.1

To give more of something than people can use

How Supplied

to supply
400 1.6
to undersupply
5.3

Surface Forms

undersupply infinitive
undersupplied past
undersupplied past participle
undersupplying present participle
undersupplies third person singular

Morphology

undersupply = supply (transparent) = under + supply

The verb is a straightforward prefixation of 'supply' by the productive prefix 'under-' meaning 'insufficiently' or 'to a lesser degree', which learners can easily interpret.

Etymology

The verb undersupply comes from under 'below' and supply 'to give', and it means to provide less than is needed or asked for.