underspend

Questions about underspend

What does underspend mean?

underspend means "spend less than the whole of (a budget, for example)". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in underspend?

underspend has 3 syllables and divides as un-der-spend under the regular spelling rules. It is not in the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary, so that comes from how the word is written rather than from a recorded pronunciation, and no stress or phonetic transcription is claimed for it.

What is the opposite of underspend?

The recorded antonyms are overspend, overspend.

Is underspend a common word?

underspend is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.