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underreport

vb. 1 To report a number falsely, making it smaller than it ought to be, especially to do so intentionally 2 As a group, to report something less frequently than it actually occurs

Usage examples of "underreport".

He knew the mathematical formulas the service used to target institutions for auditing and every year carefully made out his returns, underreporting legitimate deductions and not taking others so that no red flags triggered the random-audit process.

In other cases, American companies underreport their assets or their activity.

Stormy Forest label, the same marketing employee who had alerted me to the possibility of having my own label now was telling me how I could protect myself from the common yet unethical practice of underreported record sales.

In the 1960s sexual abuse of children was grossly underreported, and became public only in the most egregious cases.

This was a repeat of the last program sell-off disaster, but this time with a new, underreported, and sinister twist.

An underreporting of troops might lure them into an ambush, and an overre-porting might even make them withdraw.

But child victims tend not to report abuse, and a chaotic environment like the Bayview makes underreporting more likely.

I have ever heard of a patient who would fall into a paralytic state over underreporting federal taxes.

A recent audit discovered that the police in Atlanta were radically underreporting crime since the early 1990s.

There was the hitherto underreported coer­cive function, for one thing, and the ominous implications of the men­tal testing program.

They'd underreported farm production to the Germans and gave the surplus to those passing through and fight­ing from the hills.

Cat scratch fever is a super-serious and totally underreported disease.

You knew they were underreporting trade and production, and if you didn't, you're more stupid than even I would have imagined.

Her discovery suggested serious underreporting of spice production to CHOAM and the Emperor.