[
UK
/ˌʌndəʃˈuːt/
]
VERB
- shoot short of or below (a target)
-
fall short of (the runway) in a landing
The plane undershot the runway
How To Use undershoot In A Sentence
- You see that you're undershooting and so, leaving the throttle as is, you attempt to flatten your descent path by lifting the nose a bit - and you enter the region of reverse command.
- We estimate demand in the UK is running at around 230,000 dwellings a year but supply is undershooting this mark by 60,000 at 170,000 dwellings.
- Indeed, I posted before how the Blue Chip forecast for GDP growth in Q4 09 kept going up throughout the last half of 2009, and still ended up undershooting in the final January report before the release. Matthew Yglesias » The Soon-to-Change Unemployment Narrative
- Were we to continue to undershoot beyond the current two-year forecast horizon, this could damage our credibility.
- Stripping out items like a $528 million noncash benefit from a tax adjustment, per-share earnings fell to $3.55 from $3.77 a year earlier, undershooting Wall Street expectations. CME Will Protect Farmers' Hedges
- If we focus on the profile of inflation over the last two years or so, the period over which the MPG has had more influence, there has indeed been a tendency for inflation to undershoot the target.
- Investors doubt the recovery in housing and consumer spending will be enough to achieve above-trend growth and that interest rates will need to be lowered ‘eventually’ to prevent inflation undershooting.
- If we persistently undershoot the target, it could eventually damage our credibility.
- The true potential of information technology will therefore remain untapped in most cases, with initiatives undershooting in their delivery of reform objectives.
- For the record, investors warned last month that while the economy was growing strongly, tax revenues continue to undershoot.