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  • verb Present participle of underfund.

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Examples

  • But now, government underfunding is forcing school districts to lay off the very people that help children learn to read.

    BC School Libraries under assault 2010

  • But now, government underfunding is forcing school districts to lay off the very people that help children learn to read.

    April 2010 2010

  • Internal medicine departments in Israeli public hospitals have reached maximum capacity as a result of long term underfunding and a shortage of doctors, the Israel Medical Association has said.

    Latest headlines from BMJ 2010

  • This is also often paired with the inevitable complaints of program "underfunding" - oddly enough never matched by complaints from any quarter that any program is experiencing "overfunding".

    Monday Roundup ALW 2007

  • This is also often paired with the inevitable complaints of program "underfunding" - oddly enough never matched by complaints from any quarter that any program is experiencing "overfunding".

    Archive 2007-06-01 ALW 2007

  • I think what you're probably looking at is our latest estimate of total plan underfunding, which is about $64 billion.

    Press Briefing By Mike Mccurry And Others ITY National Archives 1997

  • "Long term underfunding of prostate cancer research, for example, has resulted in many unanswered questions about testing, treatments and care.

    PinkNews.co.uk 2009

  • "The underfunding is a contributing factor to the high attrition rate in our university system," he said.

    IOL: News 2010

  • His reform is the right thing to do, but it cannot address the pensions 'underfunding, which is the worst in the nation.

    Rockford Register Star Home RSS 2009

  • Saunders is also one of the few Americans that understands that it's the "underfunding" of 401 (k) plans that is the train wreck that nobody's talking about.

    Jane White: What's the Best Fix for Your "Underfunded" and Poorly Managed 401(k) Account? Jane White 2010

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