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- verb Present participle of
underserve .
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Examples
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The fans won, with pro football entrenched in cities that the NFL had been underserving.
How the Patriots morphed from a Cape house into an NFL titan 2009
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In this study, researchers re-created the Delboeuf illusion using different sized plates filled with food, with people overserving themselves on large plates and underserving on small plates.
Tricking the Eye to Keep From Heaping Plates Ann Lukits 2011
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Another brave soul dies for an underserving public. on November 21, 2009 at 9: 53 pm Dave Conner
PC Bill Barker – Officer Down. « POLICE INSPECTOR BLOG Inspector Gadget 2009
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The funding simply assures the program, which was slated to end on June 30, will continue to exist past June 30 in its current underfunded and underserving state.
Washington’s Basic Health Plan Likely to Win Federal Funding « PubliCola 2010
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The idea of deserving versus underserving poor is a hand-me-down from the Protestant/English work ethic that has a long history of ignoring the poorest and denigrating them to squalor.
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While it is underserving all of our students, it is most starkly failing low-income and minority students the very children who depend on it the most.
Obama's School Reforms Are a Priority Michael Lomax 2010
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Shrugging off the criticism of his plans, he believes downtown Berlin is still vastly underserving both local and international shoppers.
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Early socialists had no trouble with categorising ‘the poor’ and ‘the underserving poor’, recognizing that there will always be a feckless amoral element in any society and they set about trying to ‘improve’ the ‘deserving poor’ and advocated a range of solutions including eugenics for the ‘undeserving’.
A Nice Day For A Forced Wedding. « POLICE INSPECTOR BLOG Inspector Gadget 2008
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There is nothing about poor people being lazy, nothing about the underserving poor being leeches on society, nothing about how I pulled myself up by my own bootstraps so everyone else should too.
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There is nothing about poor people being lazy, nothing about the underserving poor being leeches on society, nothing about how I pulled myself up by my own bootstraps so everyone else should too.
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