Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A supply smaller than what is appropriate or required.
- transitive verb To supply in an amount insufficient to what is appropriate or required.
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- verb To provide with insufficient
supplies ; tosupply inadequately
Etymologies
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Examples
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The Google Nexus, Motorola Droid and Palm Pre handsets, among others, are expected to try to match Apple's storage offerings. iSupply predicts that 2010 might see periods of "undersupply" as a result of the strong sales of flash-based handsets.
Softpedia News - Global Sebastian Pop 2010
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The Google Nexus, Motorola Droid and Palm Pre handsets, among others, are expected to try to match Apple's storage offerings. iSupply predicts that 2010 might see periods of "undersupply" as a result of the strong sales of flash-based handsets.
Softpedia News - Global Sebastian Pop 2010
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The Google Nexus, Motorola Droid and Palm Pre handsets, among others, are expected to try to match Apple's storage offerings. iSupply predicts that 2010 might see periods of "undersupply" as a result of the strong sales of flash-based handsets.
Softpedia News - Global Sebastian Pop 2010
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Mr. Andersson maintained that a growing undersupply of housing means it is just a matter of time before the market recovers.
Skanska Searches for Home Buyers Niclas Rolander 2011
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The move marks another step in the strategic overhaul of Britain's third-largest home builder by market value, and is an attempt to take advantage of the undersupply of new housing, constrained land availability and low stock levels of housing in the U.K.
Taylor Wimpey Sells North American Operations Michael Haddon 2011
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What the China property story is about is the structural undersupply of land.
Harvest Capital Makes Bold Move on Property Polly Hui 2012
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We already have an oversupply of College-educated labor, but an undersupply of Trade skills.
Milton Friedman on health, education, Arnold Kling | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty 2009
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While the current configuration of our society may undersupply revenge, sanctioning/allowing revenge may easily oversupply the same, leading to private feuds that are ultimately destructive to society.
What's Wrong with REVENGE?, Bryan Caplan | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty 2009
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We already have an oversupply of College-educated labor, but an undersupply of Trade skills.
Milton Friedman on health, education, Arnold Kling | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty 2009
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Whether the dynamic considerations of undersupply of the collective good trump the greater static efficiency of the free-riding in these cases will be an empirical question: Blockbuster movies, quite probably; snowdrifts, maybe not.
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