underfund
verb
un·der·fund
ˌən-dər-ˈfənd 
underfunded; underfunding; underfunds
: to provide insufficient funds for
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Even as the Biden administration has intensified Washington’s focus on oversight, Congress has continued to underfund and understaff some of the very offices whose chief responsibility is to monitor stimulus cash.
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Tony Romm and Yeganeh Torbati, Anchorage Daily News, 28 Dec. 2022
Yet the medical sciences continue to underfund studies focused on women, even among diseases that affect women most of all.
—Chloe E. Bird, Fortune, 11 Feb. 2022
The presumption was that white parents and administrators would not underfund schools that Black children attended if white children were also students there.
—Jelani Cobb, The New Yorker, 13 Sep. 2021
It later was seen as a contributing factor in the 1996 decision to underfund the city’s pension system.
—San Diego Union-Tribune, 15 Aug. 2021
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Tony Romm and Yeganeh Torbati, Anchorage Daily News, 28 Dec. 2022
Yet the medical sciences continue to underfund studies focused on women, even among diseases that affect women most of all.
—Chloe E. Bird, Fortune, 11 Feb. 2022
The presumption was that white parents and administrators would not underfund schools that Black children attended if white children were also students there.
—Jelani Cobb, The New Yorker, 13 Sep. 2021
It later was seen as a contributing factor in the 1996 decision to underfund the city’s pension system.
—San Diego Union-Tribune, 15 Aug. 2021
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“Underfund.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/underfund. Accessed 16 Nov. 2024.
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