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▪ I. ˈundercharge, n.
[under-1 10 b.]
An insufficient charge. Also, an adjustment made to correct an account (see quot. 1861).
1861E. B. Ivatts Handbk. Railway Station Managem. 86 The undercharges or amounts that are afterwards added when the proper charge has not been made,—(when a charge has been once made on an invoice, the figures in English accounts are never altered, errors being corrected by undercharge or overcharge). 1864Webster, Under-charge, a charge less than is usual or suitable. 1920Rep. Departmental Comm. Industrial Assurance Companies 3 If there is under-payment,..it is not due to any undercharge on the assured.
▪ II. ˌunderˈcharge, v.
[under-1 10 a.
Florio (1611) has Sottocaricare, to vnder-charge.]
1. trans. To impose insufficient charges on; to charge (a person, etc.) too little; to make an inadequate charge for (a thing).
1633Strafford Lett. & Disp. (1739) I. 223 They have swallowed down this Maxim, that the Revenue of this Crown must ever be rather over than undercharged. 1712Prideaux Direct. Ch.-wardens (ed. 4) 57 If any be over⁓charged, or others undercharged, the Ordinary will condemn the Wrong done. 1747Gentl. Mag. 99/1 Any defraud in houses undercharg'd, the persons, &c. to pay double rates. 1864Webster s.v., To undercharge goods or services. 1895Daily News 15 Mar. 5/6 He affirmed that so far from over⁓charging India, India was undercharged.
2. To fill or furnish with less than the average charge.
1794R. J. Sulivan View Nature II. 23 A body that has lost part of its natural quantity, is said to be undercharged, or negatively electrified. 1881J. C. Maxwell Electr. & Magn. I. 40 If the quantity of fluid in the body is..less [than that required], the body is said to be Undercharged.
Hence undercharged ppl. a.
1815J. Smith Panorama Sci. & Art II. 180 There is an attraction exerted between the overcharged extremity of one magnetic body, and the undercharged extremity of the other. 1834J. S. Macaulay Field Fortif. 193 When it is required to determine the charge of an undercharged mine, the same rule may be followed. |