undercount
verb[IorT]
(alsounder-count)uk/ˌʌn.dəˈkaʊnt/us/ˌʌn.dɚˈkaʊnt/tocountfewerpeopleor things than there really are:
The Census Bureau wascriticizedfor undercounting the nation'shomeless.
Serverstendto under-count thenumberoftimesapageisviewedon theinternet.
Whether or not youapproveofsame-sexrelationships, it doesn'thelpanybody to undercount or tomisrepresent.
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- Within theUnitedStatesfor about one hundredyears, theblackvotewas undercounted.
- ThenumberofCentralAmericansmay be undercounted because some of them may haveidentifiedthemselves asMexican.
Numbering & counting
- absolute value
- cash
- count
- countsomethingout
- countdown
- counter
- decimal point
- dendrochronology
- headcount
- innumerate
- numeracy
- numerate
- octal
- reckonsomethingin
- recount
- renumber
- run
- run(something)intosomething/someone
- run tosomething
- the Fundamental Counting Principle
undercount
noun[C]
(alsounder-count)uk/ˈʌn.də.kaʊnt/us/ˈʌn.dɚ.kaʊnt/anoccasionwhen fewerpeopleor things arecountedthan there really are, or theamountby which thenumbercountedis less than theactualnumber:
Shenotedthat somegaypeoplestillfearcheckingaboxon agovernmentformthatindicatessexualorientationand that this couldresultin an undercount.
He said that he nowbelievesthe undercount was less than 1percent.
Acomputerglitchledto an under-count of 33,000votes.
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- The undercount of Hispanics is mostseverein theareasofgreatestpovertyandgreatestneed.
- Theyestimatedastatewideundercount of about 55,000 of Colorado's 4.3 millionresidents.
- Somepeoplethinkthere mayactuallybe up to 60,000 Hmong in Minnesota, but theextentof anypossibleundercount isn'tknown.
Numbering & counting
- absolute value
- cash
- count
- countsomethingout
- countdown
- counter
- decimal point
- dendrochronology
- headcount
- innumerate
- numeracy
- numerate
- octal
- reckonsomethingin
- recount
- renumber
- run
- run(something)intosomething/someone
- run tosomething
- the Fundamental Counting Principle