Underdeliver

Quick meaning: Underdeliver is a verb meaning To deliver less, or at an inferior level, than promised or expected.

Meaning

To deliver less, or at an inferior level, than promised or expected.

Example Sentences

"[...] If the economy has tanked... then we don't want to over-promise and under-deliver."

[…] the result was a warning to all exhibition organisers about the dangers of overpromising and underdelivering when promoting events.

Hope Hicks, one of the President’s longest-serving aides, warned Parscale against touting ticket request numbers, reminding him that the number one rule in politics is not to overpromise and underdeliver, a source familiar with the matter said.

Word Forms

• underdelivers
• underdelivering
• underdelivered

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include misdeliver, overpromise, outpromise, underpredict, underrepresent, underprovision.

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