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undercount

[uhn-der-kount, uhn-der-kount]

verb (used with object)

  1. to count less than the full number or amount of.

    The mayor claimed the census had undercounted the city's population.



noun

  1. a count or total that is less than the actual number or amount.

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51Թ History and Origins

Origin of undercount1

First recorded in 1950–55; under- + count 1
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Nash also criticized the subsequent effort from the administration to undercount the number of deaths among nursing home residents by excluding residents who were infected in nursing homes but who died in hospitals from official tallies.

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Cuomo has publicly admitted that there was a "delay" in the reporting of some nursing home-related deaths during the pandemic, though he has stopped short of apologizing for either the policy or the undercount.

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That’s almost certainly an undercount, Charlotin says.

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Israel’s military campaign has so far killed at least 53,000 people in Gaza — including combatants and civilians, but mostly women and children, according to health authorities there — and many believe that toll to be an undercount.

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Griffin, who investigates suspected wolf kills in the region for the Department of Fish and Wildlife, acknowledged that the 80 or so kills attributed to the Whaleback pack is an undercount.

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