starve UK US /stɑːv/ verb [T, often passive]
► if a company, etc. is starved of something necessary or good, it does not receive enough of it: starve sth of sth »
His predecessor in the job had starved the business of capital investment.
be starved of/for cash/funds/investment »The company was starved of cash and failed to compete worldwide.
-starved suffix
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This is not an industry which is capital-starved.
Financial and business terms. 2012.