Word Meanings - UNDERPRODUCTION - Book Publishers vocabulary database

The production of less than is demanded or of less than the usual supply. F. A. Walker.

Related words: (words related to UNDERPRODUCTION)

• DEMANDRESS
  A woman who demands.
• SUPPLYMENT
  A supplying or furnishing; supply. Shak.
• SUPPLY
  LL. suppletare, from L. supplere, suppletum; sub under + plere to 1. To fill up, or keep full; to furnish with what is wanted; to afford, or furnish with, a sufficiency; as, rivers are supplied by smaller streams; an aqueduct supplies an artificial
• SUPPLYANT
  Supplying or aiding; auxiliary; suppletory. Shak.
• DEMAND
  To call into court; to summon. Burrill. (more info) L. demandare to give in charge, intrust; de- + mandare to commit to 1. To ask or call for with authority; to claim or seek from, as by authority or right; to claim, as something due; to call for
• WALKER
  A forest officer appointed to walk over a certain space for inspection; a forester. 4. Etym: (more info) 1. One who walks; a pedestrian. 2. That with which one walks; a foot. Lame Mulciber, his walkers quite misgrown. Chapman.
• USUAL
  Such as is in common use; such as occurs in ordinary practice, or in the ordinary course of events; customary; ordinary; habitual; common. Consultation with oracles was a thing very usual and frequent in their times. Hooker. We can make friends
• DEMANDER
  One who demands.
• PRODUCTION
  1. The act or process or producing, bringing forth, or exhibiting to view; as, the production of commodities, of a witness. 2. That which is produced, yielded, or made, whether naturally, or by the application of intelligence and labor; as, the
• DEMANDANT
  One who demands; the plaintiff in a real action; any plaintiff.
• DEMANDABLE
  That may be demanded or claimed. "All sums demandable." Bacon.
• SHOPWALKER
  One who walks about in a shop as an overseer and director. Cf. Floorwalker.
• REDEMAND
  To demand back; to demand again.
• SLEEPWALKER
  One who walks in his sleep; a somnambulist.
• OVERPRODUCTION
  Excessive production; supply beyond the demand. J. S. Mill.
• TRACKWALKER
  A person employed to walk over and inspect a section of tracks.
• RESUPPLY
  To supply again.
• ROPEWALKER
  A ropedancer.
• FLOORWALKER
  One who walks about in a large retail store as an overseer and director.
• UNUSUALITY
  Unusualness. Poe.
• COWALKER
  A phantasmic or "astral" body deemed to be separable from the physical body and capable of acting independently; a doppelgänger.
• REPRODUCTION
  the process by which plants and animals give rise to offspring. Note: There are two distinct methods of reproduction; viz.: asexual reproduction and sexual reproduction . In both cases the new individual is developed from detached portions of
• OVERSUPPLY
  To supply in excess.