undersubscribe

Too few sign-ups

Undersubscribe means to subscribe or commit to less than the amount available or expected.

The term appears most often in finance, where an offering is undersubscribed when investors don't buy all the shares or bonds available: The IPO was undersubscribed, forcing the company to lower its price.

A course or event can also be undersubscribed when too few people sign up.

shortfall

deficit

Amount still owed

insufficiency · deficiency · unfilled · unmet · underfunding · incomplete

finance

IPO

First public stock offering

securities · bonds · equity · allotment · placement · offering · tranche · capital · debentures · prospectus

demand

lackluster

Lacking brilliance or vitality

unpopular · disinterest · apathy · indifference · neglect · ignored · unfavored · underwhelming · unnoticed · overshadowed

Opposites
subscription/demand level

undersubscribeoversubscribe

Accept excess demand

overbook · oversell · sell out · overcommit · fill up

Family

under, subscribe, subscribed, subscriber, subscribers, subscribing, subscription, subscriptions, scribe

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