underserved

Underresourced; not having sufficient service.

Adjective

  1. Underresourced; not having sufficient service.
    • Many families who live paycheck-to-paycheck are currently underserved by the financial services industry.

    1. (medicine) Disadvantaged with regard to health services because of inability to pay, inability to access care, or other disparities for reasons of race, religion, language group or social status.

    2. Poorly served.

      • It's too early to say precisely which corridors it will use, but TS notes a potential focus on underserved areas with poor connectivity - a need to improve access to the city centre, hospitals, colleges, employment...

Origin

From under- + served.

Forms

more underserved most underserved under-served

Verb

  1. simple past and past participle of underserve

Origin

Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *h₁én Proto-Indo-European *h₁entér Proto-Indo-European *(H)n̥dʰí Proto-Indo-European *-ér Proto-Indo-European *(H)n̥dʰér Proto-Germanic *under Proto-West Germanic *undar Old English under- Middle English under- English under- English serve English underserve English -ed English underserved From underserve + -ed.