Explore Underinvestment through 10+ example sentences from English, with an explanation of the meaning. Ideal for language learners, writers and word enthusiasts.
Underinvestment meaning
An insufficient investment.
Using Underinvestment
- The main meaning on this page is: An insufficient investment.
- In the example corpus, underinvestment often appears in combinations such as: underinvestment in, of underinvestment, and underinvestment.
Context around Underinvestment
- Average sentence length in these examples: 24.7 words
- Position in the sentence: 1 start, 8 middle, 10 end
- Sentence types: 19 statements, 0 questions, 0 exclamations
Corpus analysis for Underinvestment
- In this selection, "underinvestment" usually appears near the end of the sentence. The average example has 24.7 words, and this corpus slice is mostly made up of statements.
- Around the word, chronic, significant, mismanagement, takes and needs stand out and add context to how "underinvestment" is used.
- Recognizable usage signals include years of underinvestment and and chronic underinvestment in piped. That gives this page its own corpus information beyond isolated example sentences.
- By corpus frequency, "underinvestment" sits close to words such as abdulrasheed, abhinav and aboriginals, which helps place it inside the broader word index.
Example types with underinvestment
The same corpus examples are grouped by length and sentence type, making it easier to see the contexts in which the word appears:
This had caused decades of underinvestment in such areas. (9 words)
It added: "Fatigue and system limits are being stretched after years of underinvestment. (13 words)
Management has highlighted the underinvestment in storage as natural gas demand has grown. (13 words)
Venezuela's crude output steadily declined from well over 2 million barrels-per-day (bpd) in 2014 to just over 1 million bpd by the end of last year, the result of a drop in prices and what critics say is years of underinvestment and mismanagement. (46 words)
Paul Langford, strategic director of city housing, said there had been an underinvestment in homes in the city for more than a decade and the council would soon begin to see the decency figures moving in the right direction. (39 words)
Railway workers, who also lost colleagues in the accident, have staged rotating walkouts since Wednesday to denounce cost-cutting and underinvestment in the rail infrastructure, a legacy of Greece’s debilitating debt crisis from 2010 to 2018. (37 words)
Example sentences (19)
Our region has been reeling from years of significant underinvestment, and un-doing that underinvestment takes time.
In mid- and low-income countries, bottled water consumption is linked to poor tap water quality and often unreliable public water supply systems – problems often caused by corruption and chronic underinvestment in piped water infrastructure.
Overall, the company operates in a broad construction industry, which is the major locomotive of the U.S. economy, especially considering the massive of homes after underinvestment in the industry since the Great Recession.
Public health scholars : "Our analysis of the literature on underinvestment in health, data on attacks on health facilities.
Railway workers, who also lost colleagues in the accident, have staged rotating walkouts since Wednesday to denounce cost-cutting and underinvestment in the rail infrastructure, a legacy of Greece’s debilitating debt crisis from 2010 to 2018.
He described the county's crumbling roads as a legacy of some 15 years of underinvestment.
It added: "Fatigue and system limits are being stretched after years of underinvestment.
It referred to failure in the television business, low morale, mismanagement, underinvestment in theme parks and “your consistent refusal to establish a clear succession plan”.
Management has highlighted the underinvestment in storage as natural gas demand has grown.
Many that Thames Water’s current troubles, for example, stem from years of high dividends to shareholders and underinvestment in infrastructure.
Minister Samuda says $3 billion will be spent on water systems in the parish of Portland, in a bid to reverse decades of underinvestment and neglect.
Paul Langford, strategic director of city housing, said there had been an underinvestment in homes in the city for more than a decade and the council would soon begin to see the decency figures moving in the right direction.
Persistent underinvestment in developing new oil production due to expectations of a transition to renewable energies has contributed to forecasts of a this year.
Reheated Thatcherism, updated for the post-Brexit era, will be an extremely hard sell to a country blighted by dysfunctional public services and underinvestment.
However, Anstee also said chronic underinvestment needs to be tackled for customers to see real change.
Venezuela's crude output steadily declined from well over 2 million barrels-per-day (bpd) in 2014 to just over 1 million bpd by the end of last year, the result of a drop in prices and what critics say is years of underinvestment and mismanagement.
With such a fragmented industry and high proportion of micro-businesses construction has suffered from underinvestment in training and development.
In many enterprises, IT security is a priority for senior management, but in more than half (54%) of manufacturing companies, top management is little – if at all – involved in ICS protection issues, which results in underinvestment.
This had caused decades of underinvestment in such areas.
Common combinations with underinvestment
These word pairs occur most frequently in English texts:
- underinvestment in 13×
- of underinvestment 5×
- and underinvestment 4×
- underinvestment and 3×
- chronic underinvestment 2×