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underdeliver en · VERB

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Etymology

Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *h₁én Proto-Indo-European *-tér Proto-Indo-European *h₁entér Proto-Indo-European *h₂én Proto-Indo-European *dʰeh₁-? Proto-Indo-European *-dʰi ? Proto-Indo-European *(H)n̥dʰí Proto-Indo-European *-ér Proto-Indo-European *(H)n̥dʰér Proto-Germanic *under Proto-West Germanic *undar Old English under- Middle English under- English under- English deliver English underdeliver From under- + deliver.

Meanings

1. To deliver less, or at an inferior level, than promised or expected
   • "[...] If the economy has tanked... then we don't want to over-promise and under-deliver." 2022 October 5, “Network News: Private sector's role in a publicly-owned railway”, in RAIL, number 967, page 16:
   • Hope Hicks, one of the President’s longest-serving aides, warned Parscale against touting ticket request numbers, reminding him that the number one rule in politics is not to overpromise and underdeliver, a source familiar with the matter said. 2020 July 13, Michael Warren, Jeremy Diamond, Ryan Nobles and Fredreka Schouten, “Amid rising coronavirus cases, the Trump campaign struggles to get its rally machine going”, in CNN:
   • […] the result was a warning to all exhibition organisers about the dangers of overpromising and underdelivering when promoting events. 2009 March 3, “Promoters fake Howard support”, in Herald Sun:

Forms

Relateds

overpromise · underdelivery

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es cumplir poco (Translations)