underutilized

[uhn-der-yoo-tuhl-ahyzd]

adjective

1. not utilized enough; not used to full capacity or to maximum effect.

Example Sentences

West Texas is dotted with tumbleweeds, underutilized oil and gas infrastructure and ranches.

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It works like this: For most of the year, power plants are underutilized, because there isn’t enough demand for their electricity.

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“Many of our multifamily properties had, whenever they were designed, additional space that they didn’t cover with housing that is underutilized,” former Sen. Nancy Skinner, who authored the bill, told the Assembly Standing Committee on Housing and Community Development last year.

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Still, some residents of the Koreantown apartment building are protesting the proposed ADU construction, saying it will remove parking spaces that are vital, not underutilized.

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But as disappointing as the park shortage is, there’s a readily available, tragically underutilized resource that Halper has been promoting in his role as a member of the non-profit L.A.

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