underfunded

/ ˌʌndəˈfʌndɪd /

adjective

1. having or provided with insufficient funding

Example Sentences

Horizon said Medicaid coverage was underfunded, limiting its ability to increase payments to doctors, and in 2021 the insurer began eliminating some inactive doctors from its online directory.

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She added: "As long as the university system in the UK is so wildly underfunded as it is now, universities will be vulnerable to attacks like this."

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Unite Secretary Susan Fitzgerald said: "Scotland is losing highly skilled jobs, decent affordable housing remains out of reach and public services remain underfunded and overstretched. Wages and living standards just aren't keeping up."

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The federal public defender for Southern California is in charge of a unit that’s always underfunded and perpetually an underdog against the might and resources of the government.

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Women's health research has historically been underfunded, and under-researched with medical research treating men's bodies as the default.

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