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underserviced

underserviced adjective: receiving an inadequate or disproportionately low level of service, especially from the state.

Adjective

underserviced (comparative more underserviced, superlative most underserviced)

  1. Receiving an inadequate or disproportionately low level of service, especially from the state
    • In Toronto, we have underserviced neighbourhoods, subsidized routes into the city's fringes, and unreliable service in the core.2009 February 7, Lynda Hurst, “Should we limit family size to save the Earth?”, in Toronto Star

Forms of underserviced

comparativemore underserviced
superlativemost underserviced

Origin of underserviced

From under- + serviced.

Questions about underserviced

What does underserviced mean?
Underserviced means receiving an inadequate or disproportionately low level of service, especially from the state.
What part of speech is underserviced?
Underserviced is an adjective.

Words near underserviced in the dictionary

  1. underservant
  2. underservants
  3. underserve
  4. underserved
  5. underserves
  6. underserviced
  7. underserving
  8. underset
  9. undersets
  10. undersetter
  11. undersetters

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