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  • verb Third-person singular simple present indicative form of underutilize.

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Examples

  • In view of this pervasive background of sex prejudice, it is quite likely that the 95 percent male U of X sociology department "underutilizes" women.

    The Fight Over University Women Ezorsky, Gertrude 1974

  • The CIA post looks like a consolation prize—and perhaps a political shunting aside—that underutilizes General Petraeus's considerable experience.

    Obama's Security Reshuffle 2011

  • Market forces will not drive out the inefficient owner who underutilizes the site.

    Herman Daly Festschrift~ Ecological and Georgist Economic Principles~ A Comparison 2009

  • It's harmless fun, but it underutilizes Murphy, who's largely reduced to doing virtuoso variations on his iconic smile: there's the vast, all-embracing Sacred Smile, the melting Compassionate Smile, the I-see-through-you Forgiving Smile.

    Laughter And Tears 2008

  • Capitalism is concerned with whether economic resources are underutilized, with whether it achieves maximum efficiency or not, but it is not concerned with whether it underutilizes human resources, which are the most important thing.

    Castro Addresses Close of Health Conference 1991

  • I don't get how WWE constantly underutilizes someone so great in the ring and also so versatile.

    PWInsider Latest Articles 2010

  • But I also think that ESPN underutilizes him, out of respect for Mort and the Professor, (they could do without that guy).

    Denver Post: News: Breaking: Local 2010

  • In a guest column in this newspaper, Stuart City Manager Dan Hudson wrote, "Using downtown land for baseball underutilizes a valuable asset."

    tcpalm.com Stories 2010

  • In a guest column in this newspaper, Stuart City Manager Dan Hudson wrote, "Using downtown land for baseball underutilizes a valuable asset."

    tcpalm.com Stories 2010

  • Now who got bumped out of a bagging job because our economy severely underutilizes even some of the best-educated? runs down the major changes in the federal law affecting credit cards that took effect yesterday.

    CJR Ryan Chittum 2010

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