Betekenis van:
understatement
understatement
Zelfstandig naamwoord
- bepaalde stijlfiguur
- a statement that is restrained in ironic contrast to what might have been said
Hyperoniemen
Hyponiemen
Voorbeeldzinnen
- That's an understatement.
- That's an understatement!
- Agreeing would be an understatement.
- There are whole cultures where understatement is bred in the bone. In New England one hears as satisfaction: "It's better than a poke in the eye with a sharp stick."
- Understatement being the area found exceeding the area declared and reported with a negative figure.
- Understatement being the area found exceeding the area declared and reported as a negative figure.
- To exclude all of these costs would result in an understatement in the true cost of production, thus this claim had to be rejected.
- According to them, disregarding the effect of the subsidy granted both on domestic and export sales resulted in the understatement of revenues, affecting both the normal value for the like product and the export price determination for the product concerned.
- The validation process shall specify the kind of testing needed to ensure model integrity and identify conditions under which assumptions are violated and may result in an understatement of EPE.
- Overstatement being the area declared exceeding the area found and reported with a positive figure. Understatement being the area found exceeding the area declared and reported with a negative figure.