underassess
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underassess (third-person singular simple present underassesses, present participle underassessing, simple past and past participle underassessed)
- (transitive) To assess at too low a value.
- 1988 December 9, Ben Joravsky, “Property-tax assessments rise; north siders are revolting”, in Chicago Reader[1], archived from the original on 24 October 2020:
- So a school district whose property is underassessed will get more state aid than it deserves.