underreport

verb

un·der·re·port ˌən-dər-ri-ˈpȯrt

underreported; underreporting; underreports

transitive verb

: to report to be less than is actually the case : understate

underreports his income

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After a scathing Wall Street Journal investigation into Bank of America’s workplace culture, managers at the company have told junior bankers to report times they were instructed to underreport their working hours. —

Emma Burleigh, Fortune, 15 Aug. 2024 Trump also asserted Thursday without evidence that journalists underreport the size of the crowds at his rallies. —

Jenny Jarvie, Los Angeles Times, 8 Aug. 2024 The suit highlighted an ethics complaint made known to investors in March 2022, which alleged that an employee was told to falsify documents to underreport the number of defects in Spirit AeroSystems products. —

Marlene Lenthang, NBC News, 11 Jan. 2024 Customers had an incentive to underreport their annual mileage, in order to pay lower premiums. —

Gideon Lewis-Kraus, The New Yorker, 30 Sep. 2023 See all Example Sentences for underreport