underutilize
Companies often have underutilized facilities and equipment.
Greens are some of the most underutilized and healthy vegetables around.
The agency suggested building apartments on underutilized city property.
Entertainment may be an important and under-utilized crime prevention strategy.

SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases

Using and misusing
adopt
adoption
avail
avail yourself of something
be/go heavy on somethingidiom
exhaust
give/allow something full playidiom
go into something
go through
gobble something up
make capital out of somethingidiom
spare
spent
swallow
tap
turn over
turn to someone/something
turn/use something to good accountidiom
unblock
underuse

Examples of underutilized

underutilized
Moreover, it succeeded in identifying some previously overlooked or underutilized attributes and types that proved reliable for assigning temporal designations to excavation contexts.
The majority of respondents felt that the amount these technologies were used was "about right," although an important minority felt that they were underutilized.
However, the possibility of constructing facilities that would soon be underutilized was quite strong.
This may even be the case in those regions where the underutilized crops have their centres of diversity or are cultivated.
This study shows that the data (training corpora), that are used to construct conventional language models, are greatly underutilized.
Currently, a positive, prospective, longitudinal, therapeutic approach to the wide array of psychosocial issues typically associated with bipolar illness is relatively underappreciated and underutilized.
Furthermore, virtue ethics has been underutilized in prior codes of conduct in medicine.
By contrast, the diplomatic approach was underutilized even when it had much to offer.
An approach for assessing the yield potential and ecological requirements of an underutilized crop.
The development of a wider 'generic' methodology would provide comparative estimates of productivity for diverse underutilized (and major) species at any location.
Also, when surveyed, the majority of organic farmers identified local sales as being a preferred, though underutilized, marketing method1.
We believe that both theories are greatly underutilized, leaving an incomplete description of the nature of emotion and its neural foundation.
Despite this progress, radiocarbon dating is still underutilized.
Information to support a more focused approach is frequently unavailable or else underutilized.
In the absence of a linkage between the micro-level data generated by the survey and macro-trends, the results of the survey remain underutilized.
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