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under-deˈveloped, a.
[under-1 10 a.]
a. Incompletely developed, in various senses of the vb.
1892Photogr. Ann. II. 259 It might have been printed from a much under-developed negative. 1910H. G. Wells Hist. Mr. Polly vii. 165 Mr. Polly felt himself the faintest under⁓developed simulacrum of man that had ever hovered on the verge of non-existence. 1944Ann. Reg. 1943 328 A creed of this kind [sc. Fascist] will appeal to certain types of under-developed Europeans. 1975Gen. Systems XX. 107/1 Anthropology is disorganized and crisis-ridden, yet vastly underdeveloped.
b. spec. designating a country or other region in which economic and social conditions fail to reach their potential level or an accepted standard. Cf. developing ppl. a. and Third World.
1949H. S. Truman in Congressional Record 20 Jan. 478/1 Fourth, we must embark on a bold new program for making the benefits of our scientific advances and industrial progress available for the improvement and growth of underdeveloped areas. 1950U.S. Dept. State Bull. 25 Sept. 497 (title) Methods of financing economic development of underdeveloped countries. 1956T. Balogh in A. Pryce-Jones New Outl. Mod. Knowl. 519 The typical under-developed country even in the more recent past has only attracted capital for the exploitation of primary products. 1964Auden in Listener 1 Oct. 525/2 It's heartless to forget about the under-developed countries. 1977P. Johnson Enemies of Society xix. 253 Among the so-called underdeveloped countries, the group most likely to carry through industrialization are those which have profited from the ‘energy crisis’ which has given them truly gigantic quantities of investment capital. 1984Guardian 5 Nov. 12/2 Few people begrudge the aid we send to the starving or merely under-developed regions of the earth.
Also ˌunderdeˈvelopment, incomplete development.
1891Lancet 14 Mar. 624/2 Cases..of under⁓growth, and underdevelopment. 1892Photogr. Ann. II. 59 When from..under-development, only a poor slide results. 1927H. G. Wells in Sunday Express 20 Feb. 12/6 The development of Soviet flying is retarded by comparative poverty and the economic underdevelopment of the huge regions concerned. 1958Listener 21 Aug. 274/1 It has for too long been..assumed that inserting a technical skill into a different society will automatically overcome that aspect of underdevelopment to which it is applied. 1969A. G. Frank Latin Amer. (1970) i. 3 Most studies of development and underdevelopment fail to take account of the economic and other relations between the metropolis and its economic colonies. |