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underreserved

underreserved adjective: having an inadequate reserve.

Adjective

underreserved (comparative more underreserved, superlative most underreserved)

  1. Having an inadequate reserve.
    • One reason for this, as recently noted in this space, is that banks are underreserved for losses.2007 November 11, Gretchen Morgenson, “There's No Superhero in the Wings”, in New York Times

Forms of underreserved

comparativemore underreserved
superlativemost underreserved

Origin of underreserved

From under- + reserved.

Questions about underreserved

What does underreserved mean?
Underreserved means having an inadequate reserve.
What part of speech is underreserved?
Underreserved is an adjective.

Words near underreserved in the dictionary

  1. underrepresenting
  2. underrepresents
  3. underresearch
  4. underresearched
  5. underreserve
  6. underreserved
  7. underreserves
  8. underreserving
  9. underresolved
  10. underresource
  11. underresourced

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