underinvestment

名词 n.
中文释义

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. An insufficient investment. countable,uncountable
    — The West of England Line has long been a Cinderella railway. Decades of patch-and-mend underinvestment have resulted in consistently poor performance.

词形变化

underinvestments plural

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 investment
English underinvestment
From under- + investment.
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