underresource

English

Etymology

under +‎ resource

Verb

underresource (third-person singular simple present underresources, present participle underresourcing, simple past and past participle underresourced)

1. To provide with too few resources.
   • 1999, United States Policy Toward Iraq:

     We cannot continue to overcommit, underresource, and underpay this instrument of national power.

   • 2011, Brian D. Smith, Paul Raspin, Creating Market Insight, →ISBN:

     Hindered by this ignorance, they attack markets they can't win and ignore or underresource those they could win.

   • 2011, Erik Jones, Paul M. Heywood, Martin Rhodes, Developments in European Politics, →ISBN:

     Some of these challenges are obviously specific to particular formulas for taxation or redistribution, others derive from more general trends in demographic developments or industrial performance, while still others – such as the tendency of politicians to underresource their welfare state institutions and then use borrowing to finance the resulting overcommitments – are ubiquitous.