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How to pronounce underdevelopment in English?

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Type Words
Type of developing, development
Derivation underdevelop
Type Words
Type of development


much poverty can be traced to the underdevelopment of industry.

Examples of underdevelopment

underdevelopment
The satellite is underdevelopment process and it is being developed by SUPARCO.
From the en.wikipedia.org
What was new was to define development in terms of escaping from underdevelopment.
From the en.wikipedia.org
Evidence of such underdevelopment can be found in most areas of Spanish life.
From the economist.com
Some people look south of the Yucatan and see poverty and underdevelopment.
From the time.com
They agreed that the fundamental causes of migration are poverty and underdevelopment.
From the voanews.com
Where it is right, is that aid alone won't relieve Africa's poverty and underdevelopment.
From the time.com
It had the worst indicators for poverty and underdevelopment for rural areas of Uganda.
From the guardian.co.uk
The very same patterns of underdevelopment found in the third world have begun to kick in.
From the economist.com
But what for some is picturesque remoteness, is for others the curse of underdevelopment.
From the guardian.co.uk
More examples
  • State of inadequate development; "much poverty can be traced to the underdevelopment of industry"
  • (photography) inadequate processing of film resulting in inadequate contrast
  • (underdevelop) process (a film or photographic plate) less than the required time or in an ineffective solution or at an insufficiently high temperature; "These photos are underdeveloped"
  • (underdeveloped) developing: relating to societies in which capital needed to industrialize is in short supply
  • (underdeveloped) not yet fully developed
  • Underdevelopment is the state of an organization (e.g. a country) that has not reached its maturity.
  • (Underdeveloped) The state of a nation or region in which capital investment continually fails to take hold, leaving the people poor.
  • The condition experienced by economies that depend on colonial forms of production such as the export of raw materials and plantation crops with low wages and low investment in education. (p. 642)
  • Is a reduction in the degree of development. It is usually caused by shortened development time or a decrease in the temperature of the solution. It results in a loss of density and a reduction in image contrast.