Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- transitive verb To supply with insufficient services, especially social and health services.
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- verb transitive To
supply something withinsufficient services orresources .
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Examples
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To do so, however, is to miss connecting with a huge part of the Latino population, to undersell us and underserve us, to misrepresent us and misunderstand us.
Galina Espinoza: The Myth Of The Latina Mami Galina Espinoza 2011
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To do so, however, is to miss connecting with a huge part of the Latino population, to undersell us and underserve us, to misrepresent us and misunderstand us.
Galina Espinoza: The Myth Of The Latina Mami Galina Espinoza 2011
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To do so, however, is to miss connecting with a huge part of the Latino population, to undersell us and underserve us, to misrepresent us and misunderstand us.
Galina Espinoza: The Myth Of The Latina Mami Galina Espinoza 2011
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To do so, however, is to miss connecting with a huge part of the Latino population, to undersell us and underserve us, to misrepresent us and misunderstand us.
Galina Espinoza: The Myth Of The Latina Mami Galina Espinoza 2011
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So it makes perfect sense overserve what already has much better public transportation and to continue to underserve the most underserved areas.
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Kurbla writes: "Does the fact that, by Caplan's own admission, a free market in health insurance would underserve sick people show a real problem with the laissez-faire approach?"
Great Questions, Matt, Bryan Caplan | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty 2009
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Does the fact that, by Caplan's own admission, a free market in health insurance would underserve sick people show a real problem with the laissez-faire approach?
Great Questions, Matt, Bryan Caplan | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty 2009
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So, we don't want to oversaturate some of these areas, but we don't want to underserve them.
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“The data is used to figure out what areas you want to underserve,” Howard says.
Big Brother Inc. Verini, James 2007
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Guys who overcommit and underserve lead lives filled with frequent foul-ups and endless complications.
MAN DOES NOT LIVE BY SPORTS ALONE DR. DENNIS SWANBERG 2006
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