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Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
underutilize

also under-utilize, 1949, from under + utilize. Related: Underutilized; underutilizing.

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underutilize

vb. underuse

Usage examples of "underutilize".

Chapter 7 shows how Lucent invests corporate VC to create new technology companies out of its underutilized technology within Bell Labs.

The logic of taking an underutilized rail system and making it bigger is baffling, to put it kindly.