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UNDERSPEND

Pronunciation (US):

(GB):

 I. (verb) 

Sense 1

Meaning:

Spend at less than the normal rate

Classified under:

Verbs of buying, selling, owning

Hypernyms (to "underspend" is one way to...):

drop; expend; spend (pay out)

Sentence frame:

Somebody ----s

Antonym:

overspend (spend at a high rate)

Sense 2

Meaning:

Spend less than the whole of (a budget, for example)

Classified under:

Verbs of buying, selling, owning

Hypernyms (to "underspend" is one way to...):

spend (spend completely)

Sentence frame:

Somebody ----s something

Antonym:

overspend (spend more than available of (a budget))

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