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underfunded

 adjective
     
Related topics: Finance
un‧der‧fund‧ed
BF a project, organization etc that is underfunded has not been given enough money to be effective
seriously/chronically/badly etc underfunded
Our education system is seriously underfunded.
—underfunding noun [uncountable]
underfunding in the National Health Service
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