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What does underfund mean?

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Verb
  1. To provide insufficient funds (for).
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If we underfund it, if beds are not in place and if we do not have doctors and nurses staffing a hospital, then an adequate degree of health care cannot be provided.
The contention is it was the NDP government in Ontario that threw the floodgates wide open for corporations to underfund their pension plans and that is why we are in such difficulty now.
In order to find resources to fund the additional requirements, it would be necessary to underfund some existing mandates.
The federal government is using the economic crisis as an excuse to underfund, privatize or eliminate public services and programs, making the task of defending public services even more challenging today.
We just underfund research, especially clinical research, in this country.
If we were to overfund in one area and underfund in another we may not be able to reply to emergencies.

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