Underreporting

verb

Word Frequency: 0.2

Definitions

1.verbTo report a number falsely, making it smaller than it ought to be, especially to do so intentionally

2.verbAs a group, to report something less frequently than it actually occurs

"Women tend to underreport rape."

3.nounThe act, or the result of insufficiently reporting

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