to underutilize
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4.9
- verb
- /ˌʌndərˈjuːtəˌlaɪz/
- US
:
subutilizar
- The company decided to invest in training to ensure that employees do not underutilize their skills.
- grossly underutilized
- underutilize mental health services
- remains underutilized
I feel like gavels are underutilized in other places of work.
- I feel like gavels are underutilized in other places of work.
- So Hermione is being so underutilized.
- Mathematics has been sort of underutilized in terms of its capacity to provide foundations.
- And like there, there's a lot of Amazonian herbs that are still way underutilized.
- Too often, his or her unique insights and depth of experience are underutilized.
Examples
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And your work is brilliant, but your ideas are being underutilized.
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Yet practitioners routinely underutilize history as a tool for conflict mediation and reconciliation under the traditional negotiating frameworks.
Academic text (2006) -
We look for new underutilized technology that can be applied across a broad set of buildings.
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Mathematics has been sort of underutilized in terms of its capacity to provide foundations.
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Unfortunately, in many poor countries, government policies have encouraged capital-intensive industries that underutilize abundant supplies of labor.
Academic text (2002) -
EHRs are underutilized due to the lack of automatic knowledge acquisition methods.
Academic text (2016) -
Despite the wealth of material collected during the contest, however, the autobiographies have remained underutilized.
Academic text (1998) -
Brevity is one of the best and most underutilized ways to maximize impact.
Academic text (2017) -
Our results suggest that AAC is underutilized, especially for those students who have the most limited communicative competence.
Academic text (2015) -
Immunizations remain underutilized in transplantation candidates, transplant recipients, and household contacts.
Academic text (2017)
Synonyms
1
3.6
To use something less than you should
Antonyms
How Much
- Formal
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4.9
- US
6
4.9
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
Underutilize comes from under, meaning 'not enough' or 'below', and utilize, which is like the common word use. So, to underutilize something is to 'use' it less than it could be and not get its full value.