0 to describe something in a way that makes it seem less important, serious, bad, etc. than it really is:
She believes the research understates the amount of discrimination women suffer.
1 to say that the amount or importance of something is less than it really is:
2 to give an amount as less than it really is:
The company's conservative accounting methods mean that results are actually understated.
3 to make something seem less serious or important than it really is:
This assumption may in fact understate the value of reducing risks somewhat.
These observations, however, both overstate and understate the impact of inspections on inspected bodies.
Most start by understating the problem of remuneration, some going as far as volunteering for unpaid work.
In corporate finance, it understates the profits of highly levered firms.
The impacts of mortality table and backcasting indicated that our methodology likely understates deferred compensation.
A chapter on the assessment of dementia emphasises psychological assessment but understates the importance of psychiatric mental-state examination, nursing assessment and social work assessment.
This organisation has been understated by scholars because, unlike prototypical working class party structures, it is informal and highly decentralised.
The graph understates the total investment in 1983 since a third of the short-term pain took the form of immediate benefit cuts, not captured here.
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