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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
underfunded
adjective
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▪ But environmentalists have long claimed that the scheme has been underfunded, badly run and above all exploited by the tourist trade.
▪ But the proposals were rejected by Democratic legislators, who said the underfunded public school system would lose too much money.
▪ He added that governments seriously underfunded educational institutions, which are the traditional home of fundamental research.
▪ Music is generally accorded a low priority and is underfunded, and standards of performance are unsatisfactory in many places.
▪ Over the next hour they prayed outside an underfunded nursing home, a struggling social services agency and a crack den.
▪ The transaction also will relieve Westinghouse of roughly 40 % of its underfunded pension liability.
▪ There is the underfunded Black Entertainment Television channel on cable.
Wiktionary
underfunded
  1. Insufficiently funded v

  2. (en-past of: underfund)

Wikipedia
Underfunded

Underfunded is a comedy-drama made-for-TV movie that aired the United States cable television channel USA Network on November 8, 2006 at 10 PM EDT. It stars Mather Zickel as Darryl Freehorn, an agent in the Canadian Secret Service (CSS).

Usage examples of "underfunded".

For the frugal and underfunded Dean, the closest thing to relaxation is solitary time in the backseat of his state car, a motorized luxury that he will lose when his final term as governor ends come January.

I suppose historic preservation is less important than a lot of other things that are underfunded these days-in fact, I know it is.

But put in a good word for us poor underfunded institutions, will you?

It was a challenge to the very existence of the newly established bureau, and an opportunity for critics to demand that biological forensics be relegatated once again to a minor, underfunded branch of police departments.

Much better to be underfunded, undermanned and undervalued, like they were.

On the board, was often wearied by the frequently politicized squabbles ever which of many underfunded legal projects should be stinted.

Like most others, it was underfunded and staffed by volunteers, but the quality of the care and service was superb.

But if this business is a business at all, it must be a lending libraryhuge, conglomerate, multinational, underfunded, overinvested.

In Britain, rippedoff consumers have to wait upon timid, befuddled, underfunded and politically vulnerable agencies like OFT to take up their defense.

Belkadan for three years, an original member of ExGal-4, and traced her roots to the always underfunded ExGal Society back another three years before that, to when she was only fifteen.

Capital City and Manhattan, and left the rest of the great decaying city to the underfunded, underequipped American police.

The administrators were, for the most part, not cruel people, merely underfunded and overworked.