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Answer for the clue "Not meet expectations ", 12 letters:
underachieve

Word definitions for underachieve in dictionaries

Wiktionary Word definitions in Wiktionary
vb. To achieve less than expected; to fail to fulfil one's potential.

WordNet Word definitions in WordNet
v. perform less well or with less success than expected; "John consistently underachieves, although he is very able"; "My stocks underperformed last year" [syn: underperform ]

Usage examples of underachieve.

Even 10 years or more after the divorce, Wallerstein and Blakeslee (1989) estimated that 41% of the children of divorce in their study were still doing poorly --underachieving, tense, insecure, self-critical, and/or angry.

It had been that way ever since he'd been a bright, lonely, underachieving boy in Hudson, New York.