| 释义 |
underperˈform, v.
[under-1 10 a.]
1. intr. To perform in a manner which falls below expectation.
1976Business Week 26 Jan. 71/1 Institutions..under⁓perform over the all-important long term. 1977Daily Mail 17 Mar. 6/1 What's wrong with comprehensive schools..is..not that they fail to teach children properly... They just ‘underperform’. 1984Observer 26 Feb. 27/2 Our shares have underperformed since 1977. But this time we have performed.
2. trans. Of shares, etc.: to perform less well than (the general market).
1975Dun's Rev. June 92/3 A company that fits the criteria..might underperform the market for several years before somebody wants to acquire it. 1979Daily Tel. 18 July 21 The shares of Midland Bank have under⁓performed in an astonishing way..those of its rivals. 1984Amer. Banker 14 Mar. 13/4 Further doubts could make bank stocks underperform even a downward moving stock market.
Hence underperˈformance; underperˈformer.
1975Forbes 15 Aug. 82/3 Stocks like International Flavors, IBM..have all been underperformers in this bull market. 1976Business Week 29 Mar. 86/2 The Japanese economy shows signs of continued underperformance. 1977Daily Mail 17 Mar. 6/1 What's wrong with comprehensive schools, according to the Ministry inspectors, is ‘widespread underperformance’. 1981Times 18 May 18/6 Phillips & Drew has put it [sc. a named share] on its list of expected underperformers. |