underproduction
IPA: ˈʌndɝprʌdˈʌkʃʌn
noun
- The production of an insufficient amount.
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Examples of "underproduction" in Sentences
- When the immune system attacks GAD, it leads to an underproduction of GABA.
- One in five older people take levothyroxine for hypothyroidism, an underproduction of thyroid hormone that occurs with aging.
- Overproduction happens all the time (look at Crocs), often after a lengthy period or perception of underproduction (again, see Crocs).
- Knapp attacked this position by claiming "underproduction" to be subjective measure, a measure typically proclaimed by fiat by the central planner.
- As economic analyst Robert Shaw explains, Kenya's underproduction of staple items has placed it dangerously at the mercy of local and global economic instability.
- Mill thinks that there are other goods for which market provision will lead to underproduction, which is why he thinks that the state should subsidize scientific research and the arts (V. xi.15).
- In my judgment, American labor will see a net shift away from computer-related fields into all others (where there will now be a relative underproduction) but particularly into the biomedical fields.
- Seriously, if you can't recognize that over production of defense as a public good is a much greater threat to humanity than any such "underproduction" of defense, you are hopeless muddled, at least from libertarian perspective.
- Bove, of Rochdale Securities, said the crisis was a result of years of over-consumption and underproduction in the West which caused money to flow to Asia and other big exporters, which caused debt accumulation in the U.S. and a desire for higher-yielding securities -- like subprime mortgage-backed securities -- elsewhere.
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