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- adjective A state of ineffective utilization.
Etymologies
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Examples
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As new data released by the Paris-based Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development indicates, while American students might be "underworked," American school teachers most certainly are not -- particularly for what they are being paid.
Paras Bhayani: Should We Have More School Time? Yes -- For Kids 2009
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But they were protesting when the retirement age was kept at 53 years of age and when civil servants, who were already underworked and overpaid, wanted more year after.
Diane Francis: Greece Is Not a Country, It's a Party Diane Francis 2011
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But they were protesting when the retirement age was kept at 53 years of age and when civil servants, who were already underworked and overpaid, wanted more year after.
Diane Francis: Greece Is Not a Country, It's a Party Diane Francis 2011
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But they were protesting when the retirement age was kept at 53 years of age and when civil servants, who were already underworked and overpaid, wanted more year after.
Diane Francis: Greece Is Not a Country, It's a Party Diane Francis 2011
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But they were protesting when the retirement age was kept at 53 years of age and when civil servants, who were already underworked and overpaid, wanted more year after.
Diane Francis: Greece Is Not a Country, It's a Party Diane Francis 2011
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But they were protesting when the retirement age was kept at 53 years of age and when civil servants, who were already underworked and overpaid, wanted more year after.
Diane Francis: Greece Is Not a Country, It's a Party Diane Francis 2011
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Cynthia Rowley says that it's too ambitious -- the skirt is overworked and the top is underworked.
Una LaMarche: Project Runway Episode 12 Recap: Let's Getty It Over With Una LaMarche 2010
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But they were protesting when the retirement age was kept at 53 years of age and when civil servants, who were already underworked and overpaid, wanted more year after.
Diane Francis: Greece Is Not a Country, It's a Party Diane Francis 2011
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Walker, his fellow Republican governors and the loudest voices of the Republican Party clearly think teachers and public workers are overpaid, underworked and don't provide enough service to society, so who even needs them?
Robert J. Elisberg: Revealed: Who Actually Caused America's Financial Collapse Robert J. Elisberg 2011
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But they were protesting when the retirement age was kept at 53 years of age and when civil servants, who were already underworked and overpaid, wanted more year after.
Diane Francis: Greece Is Not a Country, It's a Party Diane Francis 2011
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