underarrest

动词 v.

英文释义

动词 v.
  1. To arrest at a disproportionately low rate. transitive
    — Sorry, I’m Italian, and let’s say I see that Sicilian policemen arrest less people in Sicily. This could be for two reasons, one is that everybody else overarrests, or the Sicilian policemen underarrest. And can you tell those two things apart?

词形变化

underarrests present,singular,third-person underarresting participle,present underarrested participle,past underarrested past

词汇关系

反义词
overarrest

词源

From under- + arrest.
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