Usually means: Lack of economic and social progress.
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  1. underdevelopment: Merriam-Webster
  2. underdevelopment: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. underdevelopment: Collins English Dictionary
  4. underdevelopment: Vocabulary.com
  5. Underdevelopment, underdevelopment: Wordnik
  6. underdevelopment: Wiktionary
  7. underdevelopment: Dictionary.com
  8. Underdevelopment: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  9. underdevelopment: Rhymezone
  10. underdevelopment: FreeDictionary.org
  11. underdevelopment: Mnemonic Dictionary
  12. underdevelopment: TheFreeDictionary.com

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  1. underdevelopment: Encyclopedia

Medicine (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. underdevelopment: Merriam-Webster Medical Dictionary
  2. underdevelopment: Medical dictionary

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Definitions from Wiktionary (underdevelopment)

▸ noun:  The condition of being underdeveloped.

Similar:
underdevelopedness, undevelopedness, underfunding, underdensity, underprivilegedness, undernourishment, underbredness, underpreparedness, undereducation, underqualification, more...

Phrases:
mammary underdevelopment, Memories of Underdevelopment, more...

Adjectives:
economic, relative, rural, political, general, regional, social, african, chronic, capitalist, structural

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    gray,     brown,     beige,     olive,     taupe, more...

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Similar:
underdevelopedness, undevelopedness, underfunding, underdensity, underprivilegedness, undernourishment, underbredness, underpreparedness, undereducation, underqualification, more...

Phrases:
mammary underdevelopment, Memories of Underdevelopment, more...

Adjectives:
economic, relative, rural, political, general, regional, social, african, chronic, capitalist, structural

Colors:
    gray,     brown,     beige,     olive,     taupe, more...



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