underinvest

动词 v.
中文释义

英文释义

动词 v.
  1. To invest insufficiently.
    — Rentokil was exposed as a business whose managers had underinvested to keep up with past glories.

词形变化

underinvests present,singular,third-person underinvesting participle,present underinvested participle,past underinvested past

词源

Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *h₁én
Proto-Indo-European *h₁entér
Proto-Indo-European *(H)n̥dʰí
Proto-Indo-European *-ér
Proto-Indo-European *(H)n̥dʰér
Proto-Germanic *under
Proto-West Germanic *undar
Old English under-
Middle English under-
English under-
English invest
English underinvest
From under- + invest.
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