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underspendverb (past and past participle underspent) /ʌndəˈspɛnd / [no object]1Spend too little: to underspend on the event would be unthinkable...- At the same time, poor planning and delivery mean that the province is expected to underspend on child-support grants, food parcels and the building of houses.
- In previous years we have underspent and have urged people to go out and spend the money.
- Some departments, including radiology, finance and surgery, underspent, which offset some of the higher costing areas.
1.1 [with object] Spend less than (a specified or allocated amount): schools have underspent their training budgets...- They underspent their budget by €15 million in 2002/2003.
- She attacked the State's childcare record, claiming it underspent its childcare budget by €19m in 2001.
- The report reveals that in several winters before 2001, the budget was underspent because of a series of mild winters.
noun /ˈʌndəspɛnd / [in singular]An act of underspending: areas in the year’s budget where there has been an underspend...- The board was told that its prescribing budget is likely to end this financial year with an underspend of £150,000.
- Prescribing costs ranged from an underspend of 7% to an overspend of 14%.
- One positive development is an underspend of £2.5 million in the trust's capital spending, meaning the unspent cash can help ease the deficit.
Rhymes amend, append, apprehend, ascend, attend, befriend, bend, blend, blende, commend, comprehend, condescend, contend, defriend, depend, emend, end, expend, extend, fend, forfend, friend, impend, interdepend, lend, mend, misapprehend, misspend, offend, on-trend, Oostende, Ostend, perpend, portend, rend, reprehend, scrag-end, send, spend, subtend, suspend, tail end, tend, transcend, trend, unfriend, upend, vend, weekend, wend |