0 present participle of understate
1 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.
Most start by understating the problem of remuneration, some going as far as volunteering for unpaid work.
Such an approach runs the risk of understating those aspects of relationships which change only slowly.
The model's spectrum largely overstates the contribution of low and medium frequencies, while largely understating the contribution of the high frequencies.
Since the relationship is slightly concave, the errors introduced by understating persistence are smaller than those introduced by overstating persistence.
The biases that heuristics induce are not constant errors - the type of error that a friendly scale makes in understating all weights.
Understating real wage growth would tend to overstate replacement rates but understate final retirement wealth.
The latter already points, however, to a better understating of why geriatricians do much of what they do.
Interestingly, these variations virtually prevent us from overstating the policy effects in the north and understating them in the south.
