The word "underspending" is correct and usable in written English.
It is typically used to describe a situation where less money is being spent than was originally planned or allocated. Example: The government announced a significant decrease in underspending for the fiscal year, citing improved budget management and cost-saving measures.
The Treasury line is that the savings can be made from good housekeeping, with departments being pressed to continue underspending their budgets.
With similar poise, a new generation of businessmen is beginning to shake off decades of underspending on research and development as the Troubles raged around them.
The body that ran the Forth Road Bridge until June when it was taken over by a private company made savings of more than £2m in the last financial year helped by underspending in several areas including maintenance, The Independent can reveal.
And he and Tom Joyner used public pressure, including the threat of a boycott, to force the electronics retailer CompUSA to respond to charges that, even though African-Americans were avid computer users, the company was underspending on advertising in black media outlets.
Despite the problems of deficient demand in the debt-ridden European Union and still underspending consumers in the United States, investors certainly appear to believe in Asia's rebounding economic cycle.
Thailand, too, he said, has significant room for expansion after underspending in recent years as a result of political distractions.
Google sets a budget for each trip, and employees who underspend them get credits they can donate to charity or use for future perks like flight upgrades.Concur, a travel- and expense-management firm, has seen its corporate clients' Airbnb bookings grow from a rounding error at the start of 2012 to more than $1m so far this year.
So if it underspends, this will reduce the fiscal stimulus the MPC was expecting.
Germany underspends on education and R&D (see chart 4), and just a fifth of scientists and engineers are aged 25-34, the lowest share in the EU.
A fair guess is that it will underspend its budget by £660m or so.
Provinces and municipalities, responsible for things like housing, water and sanitation, routinely underspend their capital budgets.
