underinvest
Americanverb (used without object)
Other Word Forms
- underinvestment noun
Example Sentences
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As OpenAI Chief Executive Sam Altman recently put it, people can either overinvest and lose money or underinvest and lose revenue.
From The Wall Street Journal • Nov. 26, 2025
“This is a classic situation of where we tend to underinvest, and we tend to move on, and we tend to forget. And that would be a huge mistake,” Emanuel said.
From Washington Post • Mar. 7, 2022
If this kind of theft happened too frequently, companies might underinvest in new technologies—or they might flee states that fail to enforce noncompete contracts.
From Slate • Oct. 25, 2021
When we underinvest in children, we pay the price for the rest of their lives, through higher spending on remedial education, reactive health care and criminal justice.
From Salon • Oct. 20, 2021
When we underinvest in our own human capital, when so many Americans are only marginally literate or numerate or suffer from ill health or dependencies, then our entire country suffers.
From New York Times • Jan. 18, 2020
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