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under-served

under-served is the alternative spelling of underserved.

Meaning of underserved

Adjective

underserved (comparative more underserved, superlative most underserved)

  1. Underresourced; not having sufficient service.
    • Many families who live paycheck-to-paycheck are currently underserved by the financial services industry.
    1. Disadvantaged with regard to health services because of inability to pay, inability to access care, or other disparities for reasons of race, religion, language group or social status.
    2. Poorly served.
      • It's too early to say precisely which corridors it will use, but TS notes a potential focus on underserved areas with poor connectivity - a need to improve access to the city centre, hospitals, colleges, employment centres, shopping centres and leisure facilities.2021 February 24, Philip Haigh, “A shift from cars: Scotland's railways are friends of electric!”, in RAIL, number 925, page 31

Forms of under-served

comparativemore under-served
superlativemost under-served

Questions about under-served

What is under-served the alternative spelling of?
Under-served is the alternative spelling of underserved.

Words near under-served in the dictionary

  1. under-represents
  2. under-resourced
  3. under-ripe
  4. under-sergeant
  5. under-sergeants
  6. under-served
  7. under-spur-leather
  8. under-spur-leathers
  9. under-stander
  10. under-standers
  11. under-steward

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Adapted from Wiktionary: under-served (page history and authors); underserved (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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