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underattendance

underattendance noun: attendance too infrequently, or by too few.

Noun

underattendance (uncountable)

  1. Attendance too infrequently, or by too few.
    • […] any honest student of conditions in rural churches is confronted by staggering and depressing statistics of overchurching and underattendance in some sections, and of entire lack of attendance due to no churching at all in others.1925, Charles Josiah Galpin, Empty Churches: The Rural-urban Dilemma, page 7
    • The underattendance of boys at high schools was a cause of regular lament by all, including girl students who were left without escorts after school social functions.2002, Jane H. Hunter, How Young Ladies Became Girls, page 198

Origin of underattendance

From under- + attendance.

Questions about underattendance

What does underattendance mean?
Underattendance means attendance too infrequently, or by too few.
What part of speech is underattendance?
Underattendance is a noun.

Words near underattendance in the dictionary

  1. underassured
  2. underate
  3. underated
  4. underattainment
  5. underattend
  6. underattendance
  7. underattended
  8. underattending
  9. underattends
  10. underattention
  11. underattenuation

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