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underpoliced

underpoliced adjective: inadequately policed.

Adjective

underpoliced (comparative more underpoliced, superlative most underpoliced)

  1. Inadequately policed.
    • The focus on punishment rather than deterrence left America significantly underpoliced, and we have remained underpoliced ever since2022 February 3, Jon Guze, “How America Ended Up Underpoliced and Overincarcerated”, in John Locke Foundation

Forms of underpoliced

comparativemore underpoliced
superlativemost underpoliced

Origin of underpoliced

From under- + policed.

Questions about underpoliced

What does underpoliced mean?
Underpoliced means inadequately policed.
What part of speech is underpoliced?
Underpoliced is an adjective.

Words near underpoliced in the dictionary

  1. underpoint
  2. underpointed
  3. underpointing
  4. underpoints
  5. underpolice
  6. underpoliced
  7. underpolicing
  8. underpolluted
  9. underpollution
  10. underpopulate
  11. underpopulated

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