How to Use underinvestment in a Sentence

underinvestment

noun

• At the same time, the real transportation lifeblood of the city—the subways, the buses, the commuter trains—is being sapped by underinvestment.
  — William Finnegan, The New Yorker, 24 June 2024
• For seven years in the mid-2000s, Detroit didn't even have a large grocery chain, in part the result of a long history of white flight from the city and underinvestment.
  — Nathaniel Meyersohn, CNN, 16 June 2020
• At the same time, the health-care system that was already extremely weak from decades of underinvestment has struggled to keep up with the Delta variant.
  — Timothy McLaughlin, The Atlantic, 22 Aug. 2021
• But plans to address the long underinvestment in neighborhoods southwest of downtown have yet to bear fruit.
  — The Arizona Republic, 19 Jan. 2021
• The country faces a shortfall of millions of homes, with underinvestment going back decades.
  — Jeff Stein, Washington Post, 7 Mar. 2024
• The stocks of Germany’s armed forces, already run down by decades of underinvestment, have been further depleted by arms supplies to Kyiv.
  — Nbc Universal, NBC News, 18 July 2024
• These challenges are the result of underinvestment in the civilian workplace.
  — Risa Brooks, Foreign Affairs, 9 Apr. 2021
• Chronic underinvestment in production now leaves the world at risk of sustained oil and gas shortages.
  — Vivek Ramaswamy and David Sokol, WSJ, 24 Oct. 2022
• After decades of underinvestment in roads, bridges, dams and travel of all kinds, citizens can see the consequences.
  — William A. Galston, WSJ, 26 July 2022
• This stems from more than a decade of underinvestment, and a long history of mismanagement.
  — Nathaniel Parish Flannery, Forbes, 13 Feb. 2024
• Decades of underinvestment across the country have left train and bus systems overburdened.
  — Carlos Waters, Vox, 18 Sep. 2018
• Home to many of the city’s Black and Latino residents, Uptown was already struggling from years of underinvestment when rioters came through the streets last year.
  — Mark Berman and Kim Bellware, Anchorage Daily News, 1 Nov. 2021
• In general, many problems are the result of decades-long underinvestment in the power system.
  — Kerry Breen, CBS News, 7 Dec. 2022
• The transport infrastructure of the north has suffered from decades of underinvestment.
  — The Economist, 18 Dec. 2019
• South Phoenix has also faced decades of underinvestment.
  — Megan Taros, The Arizona Republic, 11 Aug. 2021
• The reason that the U.S. doesn’t have the same train experience as Europe and Japan is simple: decades of underinvestment in infrastructure.
  — WSJ, 19 Aug. 2021
• At the time, the loss of these supplies and underinvestment in new oil production received little attention.
  — Gregory Brew, Foreign Affairs, 13 July 2022
• Exxon, the largest Western oil company, is reaping the rewards of high oil and gas prices spurred by years of underinvestment in production and Russia’s invasion of Ukraine.
  — Christopher M. Matthews, WSJ, 6 Dec. 2022
• While the Italian league needs an injection of cash after decades of underinvestment, Serie A would be selling a stake at a time when valuations have been knocked down by Covid-19.
  — David Hellier, Bloomberg.com, 7 Sep. 2020
• Thames Water is hurting from years of underinvestment in its infrastructure and debt of more than $17 billion.
  — Prarthana Prakash, Fortune, 28 June 2023
• Decades of underinvestment in the industry have led to low wages for caregivers and high costs for parents, resulting in a system that squeezes both child care providers and families seeking care.
  — Megan Cerullo, CBS News, 25 Sep. 2024
• Doubling down on that underinvestment during this critical time is proving to be the final act.
  — Paige Francis, Forbes, 17 Oct. 2021
• Murphy called it part of a broad underinvestment in athletics in Boston Public Schools.
  — Globe Staff, BostonGlobe.com, 20 May 2022
• Chronic underinvestment combined with a surge in demand for rail services has put DB under immense pressure to up its game.
  — Marco Quiroz-Gutierrez, Fortune Europe, 3 July 2024
• There has long been an underinvestment in primary care.
  — Jessica Bartlett, BostonGlobe.com, 5 Feb. 2023
• Long-term, this crisis is a reflection of India’s chronic underinvestment in health care.
  — Nish Acharya, Forbes, 27 Apr. 2021
• To Schuchat, formerly of the CDC, there’s a lot of ground to regain after years of underinvestment in public health, long before the covid pandemic — and high stakes in ensuring good data systems.
  — Sam Whitehead, CNN, 24 Apr. 2023
• Black New Yorkers make up a quarter of the population but half of the deaths, a fact that advocates say shows how chronic underinvestment in poorer neighborhoods can kill.
  — Brandon Loomis, The Arizona Republic, 23 Sep. 2024
• Years of red tape, underinvestment in modernizing infrastructure, and climbing costs have left the country to play catch-up with other advanced economies.
  — Samuel Burke, Fortune Europe, 29 Oct. 2024
• In December 2020, Icahn handed the club over to its members for nothing after years of growing complaints about underinvestment, declining membership, and threats of litigation.
  — John Hyatt, Forbes, 22 Sep. 2024

Last Updated: 2 Mar 2025