underreporting
Speech parts
1. underreporting - Noun
2. underreporting - Verb
Meaning
underreporting
present participle of underreport
underreporting (plural underreportings)
The act, or the result of insufficiently reporting.
Examples
He has been charged with underreporting his remuneration at Nissan by several billion yen over eight years and aggravated breach of trust for allegedly misusing the automaker's funds.
Some demographers question whether sex-selective abortion or infanticide claims are accurate, because underreporting of female births may also explain high sex ratios. citation citation Natural reasons may also explain some of the abnormal sex ratios.
And, like the unemployment rate, the numbers also will be revised - and likely upward, due to underreporting.
Back in April of 2018, we cited the Center for Investigative Reporting’s magazine wrote about how Tesla was allegedly underreporting workplace injuries in state and federal records.
He was accused by the Japanese authorities of underreporting his compensation and shifting personal financial losses to Nissan.
On Tuesday, a message on the state’s COVID-19 dashboard said that due to “issues” with the state’s electronic laboratory system, “these data represent an underreporting of actual positive cases in one single day.”