underreporting
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Definitions ofunderreporting
- To report a number falsely, making it smaller than it ought to be, especially to do so intentionally
- As a group, to report something less frequently than it actually occurs
Example: "Women tend to underreport rape."
- The act, or the result of insufficiently reporting
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