"undercount" meaning in English

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  "etymology_text": "under- + count",
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      "form": "undercounts",
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      "form": "undercounting",
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        "participle",
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    {
      "form": "undercounted",
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    {
      "form": "undercounted",
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  "pos": "verb",
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          "ref": "2009 January 8, Brian Stelter, “Arbitron Settles Lawsuit Alleging Bias in Radio Ratings System”, in New York Times",
          "text": "But minority stations have claimed that they are undercounted in the new system, in part because Arbitron has struggled to include representative numbers of young and minority listeners in its sample.",
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        "To count to an insufficient degree; to count one thing disproportionately less than another"
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          "count",
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        [
          "disproportionately",
          "disproportionately"
        ]
      ],
      "related": [
        {
          "word": "overcount"
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      ],
      "translations": [
        {
          "code": "es",
          "lang": "Spanish",
          "sense": "to count to an insufficient degree",
          "word": "contar de menos"
        },
        {
          "code": "vi",
          "lang": "Vietnamese",
          "sense": "to count to an insufficient degree",
          "word": "tính thiếu"
        }
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  "word": "undercount"
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  "etymology_text": "under- + count",
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      "form": "undercounts",
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          "ref": "2023, Eleanor Catton, Birnam Wood, page 209",
          "text": "And that, Lady Darvish thought, was almost certainly an undercount.",
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        "An incorrect count that is too low."
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  "word": "undercount"
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        "participle",
        "present"
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    {
      "form": "undercounted",
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        "participle",
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    {
      "form": "undercounted",
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        "To count to an insufficient degree; to count one thing disproportionately less than another"
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    {
      "code": "es",
      "lang": "Spanish",
      "sense": "to count to an insufficient degree",
      "word": "contar de menos"
    },
    {
      "code": "vi",
      "lang": "Vietnamese",
      "sense": "to count to an insufficient degree",
      "word": "tính thiếu"
    }
  ],
  "word": "undercount"
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        "An incorrect count that is too low."
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