Underused
adjective
Not used as much as it could or should be.
The park is greatly underused, especially during the weekdays.
Often appears as...
- greatly underused
- seriously underused
adjective
Used less often than is appropriate or effective.
In our opinion, the website is an underused tool for engaging customers.
Often appears as...
- underused tool
- underused strategy
Usage tips
Business, Marketing
adjective
Not used as much as it could or should be.
The park is greatly underused, especially during the weekdays.
Often appears as...
- greatly underused
- seriously underused
adjective
Used less often than is appropriate or effective.
In our opinion, the website is an underused tool for engaging customers.
Often appears as...
- underused tool
- underused strategy
Usage tips
Business, Marketing
Definition 1 of 2
Pro Tip 1/3Potential Waste
Reflects an implication that something has more potential if properly utilized.
The old library is underused; it could be a community hub.
Pro Tip 2/3Not Just Physical
Can refer to non-physical things, like skills or abilities, being neglected.
His knack for storytelling is underused in his work as an accountant.
Pro Tip 3/3Missed Opportunities
Often suggests missing out on benefits due to lack of use.
Their high-speed internet is underused, which is a missed opportunity for efficiency.
Pro Tip 1/3Potential Waste
Reflects an implication that something has more potential if properly utilized.
The old library is underused; it could be a community hub.
Pro Tip 2/3Not Just Physical
Can refer to non-physical things, like skills or abilities, being neglected.
His knack for storytelling is underused in his work as an accountant.
Pro Tip 3/3Missed Opportunities
Often suggests missing out on benefits due to lack of use.
Their high-speed internet is underused, which is a missed opportunity for efficiency.
Pro Tip 1/3Potential Waste
Reflects an implication that something has more potential if properly utilized.
The old library is underused; it could be a community hub.
Pro Tip 2/3Not Just Physical
Can refer to non-physical things, like skills or abilities, being neglected.
His knack for storytelling is underused in his work as an accountant.
Pro Tip 3/3Missed Opportunities
Often suggests missing out on benefits due to lack of use.
Their high-speed internet is underused, which is a missed opportunity for efficiency.
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Kimberley Motley: How I...
And within these conversations, I started hearing the connections between the businesses and the people, and how laws that were meant to protect them were being underused, while gross and illegal punitive measures were overused. And so this put me on a quest for justness, and what justness means to me
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Dave deBronkart: Meet...
She then, last year, painted this diagram. She studied health care like me. She came to realize there were a lot of people who'd written patient-advocate books that you just don't hear about at medical conferences. Patients are such an underutilized resource. Well, as it said in my introduction,
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Anna Mracek Dietrich: A...
Here's why. While nearly all of the commercial air travel in the world goes through a relatively small number of large hub airports, there is a huge underutilized resource out there. There are thousands of local airstrips that don't see nearly as many aircraft operations a day as they could.
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Little Farms, Big...
so the world is as diverse as it comes and echo tries to demonstrate difficult growing conditions around the world and ways to overcome those we're all about use what you have to make what you need focusing on underutilized fruits and vegetables with shorter shelf lives so
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Love -- you're doing it...
On the contrary, there's plenty of charm and happiness in tenderness. I refer specifically to a kind of humor that is unfortunately underused. It is a sort of poetry of deliberate awkwardness. I refer to self-mockery. For a couple who is no longer sustained, supported
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Mechai Viravaidya: How...
that you can also get condoms? You can order your condoms with your with your cappuccino. And then now, finally in education, we want to change the school as being underutilized into a place where it's a lifelong learning center for everyone.
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Transforming future...
guidance from our network and joins two other breakers to form a company called farm blocks a portable modular raised bed growing system the mission of this company is to transform a million acres of underutilized urban space into farm one
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How Mr. Condom made...
change the school as being underutilized into a place where it's a lifelong learning center for everyone we call this our school-based integrated rural development and it's a center a focal point for economic and social
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Are indoor vertical...
And finally, and this is really exciting for me personally, indoor vertical farming can actually be integrated seamlessly into the cityscape to help repurpose idle, underutilized and unused urban infrastructure.
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4 Ways to Redefine Power...
It's time we humanize work. And that you care about our well-being, too. Another important takeaway from the research is that women of color are corporate America’s greatest underutilized resource
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Kimberley Motley: How I...
And within these conversations, I started hearing the connections between the businesses and the people, and how laws that were meant to protect them were being underused, while gross and illegal punitive measures were overused. And so this put me on a quest for justness, and what justness means to me
Video examples
Dave deBronkart: Meet...
She then, last year, painted this diagram. She studied health care like me. She came to realize there were a lot of people who'd written patient-advocate books that you just don't hear about at medical conferences. Patients are such an underutilized resource. Well, as it said in my introduction,
Video examples
Anna Mracek Dietrich: A...
Here's why. While nearly all of the commercial air travel in the world goes through a relatively small number of large hub airports, there is a huge underutilized resource out there. There are thousands of local airstrips that don't see nearly as many aircraft operations a day as they could.
Video examples
Little Farms, Big...
so the world is as diverse as it comes and echo tries to demonstrate difficult growing conditions around the world and ways to overcome those we're all about use what you have to make what you need focusing on underutilized fruits and vegetables with shorter shelf lives so
Video examples
Love -- you're doing it...
On the contrary, there's plenty of charm and happiness in tenderness. I refer specifically to a kind of humor that is unfortunately underused. It is a sort of poetry of deliberate awkwardness. I refer to self-mockery. For a couple who is no longer sustained, supported
Video examples
Mechai Viravaidya: How...
that you can also get condoms? You can order your condoms with your with your cappuccino. And then now, finally in education, we want to change the school as being underutilized into a place where it's a lifelong learning center for everyone.
Video examples
Transforming future...
guidance from our network and joins two other breakers to form a company called farm blocks a portable modular raised bed growing system the mission of this company is to transform a million acres of underutilized urban space into farm one
Video examples
How Mr. Condom made...
change the school as being underutilized into a place where it's a lifelong learning center for everyone we call this our school-based integrated rural development and it's a center a focal point for economic and social
Video examples
Are indoor vertical...
And finally, and this is really exciting for me personally, indoor vertical farming can actually be integrated seamlessly into the cityscape to help repurpose idle, underutilized and unused urban infrastructure.
Video examples
4 Ways to Redefine Power...
It's time we humanize work. And that you care about our well-being, too. Another important takeaway from the research is that women of color are corporate America’s greatest underutilized resource
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Quote examples
Eric S. Raymond
American Author
When are programmers happy? They're happy when they're not underutilized - when they're not bored - and also when they're not overburdened with inappropriate specifications or meaningless bureaucracies. In other words, programmers are happiest when they're working efficiently. This is a general preference in creative work.
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Pat Mitchell
American Businesswoman
Media and technology are our greatest assets. And yet, they are our most undervalued and underused assets. Now when I say that, people look at me like I'm crazy because every young person we know in the world is never without media, ever.
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Yotam Ottolenghi
Israeli Chef
Celery leaves are an underused ingredient, most likely because supermarkets sell mostly leafless stalks.
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Ian Somerhalder
American Actor
The most underused, under-appreciated group of people in the world is our youth.
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Darren Aronofsky
American Director
Comic books and graphic novels are a great medium. It's incredibly underused.
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Tommy Lee Jones
American Actor
Kindness and politeness are not overrated at all. They're underused.
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Arancha Gonzalez
Spanish Economist
Women are the most underutilized 'resource' in the world economy.
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Gary Cole
American Actor
Every actor thinks he's underused - unless he's a movie star.
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Anne Wojcicki
American Scientist
The consumer is really underutilized in health care.
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Johnny Lever
Indian Actor
Personally, I feel my talent has been underused.
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Eric S. Raymond
American Author
When are programmers happy? They're happy when they're not underutilized - when they're not bored - and also when they're not overburdened with inappropriate specifications or meaningless bureaucracies. In other words, programmers are happiest when they're working efficiently. This is a general preference in creative work.
Quote examples
Pat Mitchell
American Businesswoman
Media and technology are our greatest assets. And yet, they are our most undervalued and underused assets. Now when I say that, people look at me like I'm crazy because every young person we know in the world is never without media, ever.
Quote examples
Yotam Ottolenghi
Israeli Chef
Celery leaves are an underused ingredient, most likely because supermarkets sell mostly leafless stalks.
Quote examples
Ian Somerhalder
American Actor
The most underused, under-appreciated group of people in the world is our youth.
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Darren Aronofsky
American Director
Comic books and graphic novels are a great medium. It's incredibly underused.
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Tommy Lee Jones
American Actor
Kindness and politeness are not overrated at all. They're underused.
Quote examples
Arancha Gonzalez
Spanish Economist
Women are the most underutilized 'resource' in the world economy.
Quote examples
Gary Cole
American Actor
Every actor thinks he's underused - unless he's a movie star.
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Anne Wojcicki
American Scientist
The consumer is really underutilized in health care.
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Johnny Lever
Indian Actor
Personally, I feel my talent has been underused.
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