Definition of "underrepresent" [underrepresent]

• To imply or suggest a lower amount, quantity, quality, or degree of than is actually present: Management has seriously underrepresented the firm's financial problems. (verb-transitive)

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• "And protesters want to amend of the election law, which critics say is designed to underrepresent opposition elements in the legislature."
• ""If you don't do cell phones," he says, "you underrepresent the people under 35, you underrepresent Hispanics and especially in Nevada, those are huge constituencies.""
• "They particularly are underrepresented of the young voters 18-35, who typically have not voted and are Obama's 'base' and they also underrepresent the minority vote of Latinos and blacks as well as they overrepresent the white 'majority votes'"