underproduce
Yield too little
To underproduce is to produce less than expected, needed, or possible.
A factory underproduces when it falls short of capacity or demand.
Crops underproduce during drought.
The term often implies failure to meet a standard: The well has been underproducing for months.
The opposite of overproduce.
Deficient supply of necessities
- deficitAmount still owed
- shortfallFailure to reach quota
- quotaFixed assigned amount
- outputWhat something generates
yield · capacity · factory · assembly · supply · demand · backlog · inventory
Gathering mature crops
- cropCultivated agricultural plants
- yieldProduce or relinquish
- droughtProlonged water scarcity
- blightPlant disease causing decay
fallow · acreage · irrigation · season · livestock · dairy · orchard · vineyard
shortage
Deficient supply of necessities
output · yield · capacity · factory · assembly · supply · demand · backlog · inventory · slowdown
harvest
Gathering mature crops
blight · fallow · acreage · irrigation · season · livestock · dairy · orchard · vineyard · plantation
scarcity
Insufficiency of something needed
shortage · allocation · rationing · inefficiency · monopoly · cartel · quota · commodity · pricing · inflation
gland
Secreting body organ
- hormoneBody's chemical messenger
- enzymeProtein that hastens reactions
- insulinPancreatic glucose-regulating hormone
cortisol · thyroid · deficiency · secretion · synthesis · metabolic · pituitary · adrenal · testosterone · estrogen
underproduceoverproduce
Make more than required
oversupply · churn out · overstock · glut · surplus
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