Usually means: Assigning too low a value.
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General (24 matching dictionaries)
  1. underestimate: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
  2. underestimate: Merriam-Webster
  3. underestimate: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  4. underestimate: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  5. underestimate: Collins English Dictionary
  6. underestimate: Vocabulary.com
  7. Underestimate, underestimate: Wordnik
  8. underestimate: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  9. underestimate: Wiktionary
  10. underestimate: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  11. underestimate: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  12. underestimate: Infoplease Dictionary
  13. underestimate: Dictionary.com
  14. underestimate (v.): Online Etymology Dictionary
  15. underestimate: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  16. Underestimate: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  17. underestimate: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  18. underestimate: Rhymezone
  19. Underestimate: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  20. underestimate: FreeDictionary.org
  21. underestimate: Mnemonic Dictionary
  22. underestimate: TheFreeDictionary.com

Business (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Construction Term Glossary (No longer online)
  2. underestimate: Legal dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. underestimate: Encyclopedia

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Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
verb:  (transitive) To estimate too low; to perceive (someone or something) as having a lower value, quantity, worth, etc., than what he/she/it actually has.
verb:  (transitive) To perceive or expect (someone or something) to be less significant or difficult than it actually is.
noun:  An estimate that is too low.

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