0 if a share issue is undersubscribed, not enough people want to buy the available shares: --
1 used to describe a situation in which not enough people want to buy or have things, such as tickets or places: --
Some courses are undersubscribed.
If the loans were undersubscribed, the arrangers could very well be left above their desired hold level.
If the loan is undersubscribed, the credit may not closeor may need significant adjustments to its interest rate or credit rating to clear the market.
At the most basic level, new schools need to open in areas of growing population, and seriously undersubscribed schools may need to be closed in areas of declining population.
That results in the available courses being undersubscribed and threatens the continued viability of such centres and the specialised courses that they provide for the needs of horticulture.
Whereas before it was grossly undersubscribed, a sink school to which no one wanted to go, there are now 400 applications a year for 240 places.
Another school in my constituency is undersubscribed and has been struggling to attract pupils, for various reasons that are not the fault of the school.
The most extraordinary feature of the assisted places scheme is that the scheme has been undersubscribed for nine years out of 14.
There is always a risk that a share issue will be undersubscribed.
