Overcount vs Undercount - What's the difference?
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To count more of something than are actually present, or to count one thing disproportionately more than another
To count to an insufficient degree; to count one thing disproportionately less than another
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Undercount is a related term of overcount.
Undercount is a antonym of overcount.
As verbs the difference between overcount and undercount
is that overcount is to count more of something than are actually present, or to count one thing disproportionately more than another while undercount is to count to an insufficient degree; to count one thing disproportionately less than another.overcount
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(en verb)- The census overcounted people in some neighborhoods, and undercounted them in others.
Antonyms
*undercountundercount
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