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to underproduce

to underproduce

1 6.5
To make less than is needed
  • verb
  • /ˌʌndərprəˈduːs/
translation icon : producir menos
  • It is claimed that public goods, like goods associated with positive externalities, tend to be underproduced in a free enterprise system because (roughly) of excludability problems.

Examples

  • And in this moment, Supreme made a really smart choice, which is they underproduced dramatically.

  • Underproducing.

    Fiction book (2000)

  • The version on the show is actually a bit better; I like the nearly acapella, underproduced sound more than the studio version.

    Blog text (7)

  • He had underproduced, and the Mets wanted him out of town.

    Blog text (18)

  • Poverty and social exclusion cause Brazil to continue to underproduce in the area of human capital, the undisputed key to today's global economy.

    Academic text (2005)

  • Countries that systematically underproduce skilled workers because it is cheaper to poach them from poorer countries are guilty of exploitation.

    Academic text (2002)

  • The usual charge is that the free enterprise system overproduces goods associated with negative externalities and underproduces goods associated with positive externalities.

    Academic text (1990)

  • First, it is possible that Huntington might choose to defend a weaker form of this hypothesis: liberal societies will underproduce military protection relative to a theoretical optimum.

    Academic text (1996)

  • Franklin's discussions of manufacturing and commerce are not solely positive; his popular economic writings reveal his concerns that the United States could end up just like Europe and England, overpopulated and underproducing.

    Academic text (2016)

  • The factory tends to underproduce due to outdated machinery.

Synonyms

to fall short
vsto underproduce
64 3.9

Fail to reach the level people expect

refers specifically to making less than needed in production or capacity

Antonyms

to overproduce
5 5.0

Make more of something than people need or can buy

How Productive

to produce
∞ 2.0
to underproduce
1 6.5

Surface Forms

underproduce infinitive
underproduced past
underproduced past participle
underproducing present participle
underproduces third person singular

Morphology

underproduce = produce (transparent) = under + produce

The meaning 'to produce insufficiently' is directly derived from 'under-' (insufficiently) + 'produce', which is a regular productive prefixation.

Etymology

Underproduce comes from the parts under- meaning 'below' or 'not enough' and produce meaning 'to make', the same root you see in product and producer. So to underproduce is to 'make' less than needed or less than full capacity.