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under-resourced

under-resourced is the alternative form of underresourced.

Meaning of underresourced

Adjective

underresourced (comparative more underresourced, superlative most underresourced)

  1. (public health) Having insufficient resources; poor or underfunded.
    • Who was being served when mainstream media coverage focused on President Clinton's personal life rather than on issues in underresourced communities?2000, Steven R. Goldzwig, Patricia A. Sullivan, “Electronic Democracy, Virtual Politics, and Local Communities”, in Robert E. Denton, editor, Political Communication Ethics: An Oxymoron?, page 68

Forms of under-resourced

comparativemore under-resourced
superlativemost under-resourced

Questions about under-resourced

What is under-resourced the alternative form of?
Under-resourced is the alternative form of underresourced.

Words near under-resourced in the dictionary

  1. under-represent
  2. under-representation
  3. under-represented
  4. under-representing
  5. under-represents
  6. under-resourced
  7. under-ripe
  8. under-sergeant
  9. under-sergeants
  10. under-served
  11. under-spur-leather

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Adapted from Wiktionary: under-resourced (page history and authors); underresourced (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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