underreport
verb
un·der·re·port ˌən-dər-ri-ˈpȯrt 
underreported; underreporting; underreports
transitive verb
: to report to be less than is actually the case : understate
underreports his income
Example Sentences
Recent Examples on the Web Some hospitals and local governments were also pressured to underreport Covid-19 deaths, health experts said. 
Vibhuti Agarwal, WSJ, 5 May 2022 This was only a portion of their global catch, which the Soviet Union continued to underreport for years. Ryan Jones, The Conversation, 12 Aug. 2022 All sides tend to underreport their own losses, while embellishing enemy casualties. Los Angeles Times, 16 Mar. 2022 But individuals who don’t file their taxes, or underreport their income, are top of the list. Lori Ioannou, WSJ, 5 Mar. 2022 Across the world, many countries underreport their greenhouse gas emissions in their reports to the United Nations, a Washington Post investigation has found. Anchorage Daily News, 8 Nov. 2021 Some of that discrepancy, the authors noted, is because reporting systems generally do not list Covid as a person's cause of death without a positive test result, which means many areas that lack testing capacity tend to underreport. NBC News, 10 Mar. 2022 In many cases, divorce lawyers said, spouses underreport their holdings, or try to hide funds in online wallets that can be difficult to get into. Jacob Carpenter, Fortune, 14 Feb. 2022 In many cases, divorce lawyers said, spouses underreport their holdings, or try to hide funds in online wallets that can be difficult to get into. Jacob Carpenter, Fortune, 14 Feb. 2022 See More
Vibhuti Agarwal, WSJ, 5 May 2022 This was only a portion of their global catch, which the Soviet Union continued to underreport for years. Ryan Jones, The Conversation, 12 Aug. 2022 All sides tend to underreport their own losses, while embellishing enemy casualties. Los Angeles Times, 16 Mar. 2022 But individuals who don’t file their taxes, or underreport their income, are top of the list. Lori Ioannou, WSJ, 5 Mar. 2022 Across the world, many countries underreport their greenhouse gas emissions in their reports to the United Nations, a Washington Post investigation has found. Anchorage Daily News, 8 Nov. 2021 Some of that discrepancy, the authors noted, is because reporting systems generally do not list Covid as a person's cause of death without a positive test result, which means many areas that lack testing capacity tend to underreport. NBC News, 10 Mar. 2022 In many cases, divorce lawyers said, spouses underreport their holdings, or try to hide funds in online wallets that can be difficult to get into. Jacob Carpenter, Fortune, 14 Feb. 2022 In many cases, divorce lawyers said, spouses underreport their holdings, or try to hide funds in online wallets that can be difficult to get into. Jacob Carpenter, Fortune, 14 Feb. 2022 See More Word History
First Known Use
1949, in the meaning defined above
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