Usually means: Basis or cause of something.
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We found 34 dictionaries that define the word underlying:

General (23 matching dictionaries)
  1. underlying: Merriam-Webster.com
  2. underlying: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. underlying: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. underlying: Collins English Dictionary
  5. underlying: Vocabulary.com
  6. Underlying, underlying: Wordnik
  7. underlying: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. underlying: Wiktionary
  9. underlying: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. underlying: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. underlying: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. underlying: Dictionary.com
  13. underlying: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  14. Underlying: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  15. Underlying: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  16. underlying: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  17. underlying: Rhymezone
  18. Underlying: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  19. underlying: Free Dictionary
  20. underlying: Mnemonic Dictionary
  21. underlying: Dictionary/thesaurus

Business (10 matching dictionaries)
  1. MoneyGlossary.com (No longer online)
  2. INVESTORWORDS (No longer online)
  3. UNDERLYING: Accounting Glossary
  4. Underlying: bizterms.net
  5. Underlying: Investopedia
  6. Comprehensive Financial (No longer online)
  7. underlying: Legal dictionary
  8. Underlying: Financial dictionary
  9. BusinessDictionary.com (No longer online)
  10. Underlying: WashingtonPost.com: Business

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. underlying: Encyclopedia

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Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
▸ adjective:  lying underneath
▸ adjective:  basic or fundamental
▸ adjective:  implicit
▸ noun:  (finance) The entity from whose performance a derivative derives its value.

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subjacent, basic, fundamental, rudimentary, inherent, implicit, inexplicit, implicit in, underpinning, more...

Opposite:
overt, apparent, explicit, superficial, manifest

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underlying assumptions, underlying asset, underlying security, underlying instrument, underlying debt, more...

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Similar:
subjacent, basic, fundamental, rudimentary, inherent, implicit, inexplicit, implicit in, underpinning, more...

Opposite:
overt, apparent, explicit, superficial, manifest

Types:
physical, social, economic, political, cultural, psychological, historical, geological, geographical, astronomical, more...

Phrases:
underlying assumptions, underlying asset, underlying security, underlying instrument, underlying debt, underlying futures contract, underlying functor, underlying set, Underlying representation, more...

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