underserve
Americanverb (used with object)
Etymology
Origin of underserve
First recorded in 1710–20; under- ( def. ) + serve ( def. )
Example Sentences
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Siegel and Torelli-Pedevska contend that industry diversity efforts themselves underserve disabled workers.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 26, 2023
“We underserve our nighttime economy and the workers,” said Scott Plusquellec, the nightlife advocate.
From Seattle Times ● May 7, 2023
We already knew that high schools typically underserve students from low-income families and communities, but apparently they're doing poorly with wealthier students as well.
From US News ● May 12, 2016
“And we don’t want to underserve that audience.”
From Washington Post ● Nov. 17, 2015
The right strategy could be getting closer to your customers by using your intimate knowledge to serve them better, or it could be driving a wedge between dissatisfied customers and the companies that underserve them.
From Forbes ● Apr. 2, 2015
The district also called attention to progress in closing the achievement gap, saying there were “accelerated gains among historically underserved students who are narrowing achievement gaps and improving at rates that exceed overall district growth.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 21, 2026
Microsoft also made several pledges, including to connect "more than 450 rural and underserved community hubs in Kenya through satellite-enabled infrastructure", the statement added.
From Barron's ● Jul. 8, 2026
Possible uses include disaster response, healthcare in developing countries, and treatment in medically underserved regions.
From Science Daily ● Jul. 2, 2026
Director Craig Gillespie is no stranger to turbulent filmmaking, and his “Cruella” commendably made an underserved villain into a fully sketched character, without overrelying on callbacks.
From Salon ● Jun. 27, 2026
Many families in underserved sections of big cities didn’t have grocery stores in their neighborhoods.
From "Becoming" by Michelle Obama
"We are still underserving many patients due to treatment failure and side effects," she said.
From BBC ● Oct. 5, 2024
The occasion was an announcement the company made this morning about the formation of a new “equity team” that will be tasked with examining how the app may be underserving different groups of people.
From The Verge ● Sep. 10, 2020
“We do not have a good education system. It’s underserving our kids,” said William “Brit” Kirwan, chancellor emeritus of the University System of Maryland, who led the three-year effort to devise a solution.
From Washington Post ● May 6, 2020
She says she now views that experience as a missed "opportunity for me to identify and then talk about how underserving and unworthy I felt."
From Fox News ● May 6, 2020
Accept my regret that you were in the hands of so underserving a workman, and one who placed me under the necessity of interrupting a work which interested you.
From Memoir, Correspondence, And Miscellanies, From The Papers Of Thomas Jefferson, Volume 2 by Randolph, Thomas Jefferson
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