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UNDERSPEND
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I. (verb)
Verb forms
Present simple: I / you / we / they underspend ... he / she / it underspends
Past simple: underspent
Past participle: underspent
-ing form: underspending
Sense 1
Meaning:
Spend at less than the normal rate
Classified under:
Verbs of buying, selling, owning
Hypernyms (to "underspend" is one way to...):
Sentence frame:
Somebody ----s
Antonym:
overspend (spend at a high rate)
Sense 2
Meaning:
Spend less than the whole of (a budget, for example)
Classified under:
Verbs of buying, selling, owning
Hypernyms (to "underspend" is one way to...):
spend (spend completely)
Sentence frame:
Somebody ----s something
Antonym:
overspend (spend more than available of (a budget))
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