Definition of underwork in US English:
underwork
verbˌəndərˈwərkˌəndərˈwərk
[with object]usually be underworkedImpose too little work on (someone)
its members are viewed by the public as overpaid and underworked
Example sentencesExamples
- Generals and others feared that underworked soldiers might degenerate into an armed mob, so education became a useful and time-consuming diversion.
- I worked in newsrooms for 20 years and I haven't known a whole lot of journalists who are underworked.
- But a few subversive questions might crop up amid one's fighting rush hour traffic and complying with the boss's directives: Could it be that many of our workers see themselves as underworked?
- So bad was business one day last week that the underworked bar staff reported they had sold just 16 beers in 10 hours.
- It is a popularly held notion that most managers are underworked and overpaid, is it not?
- We have a lot of people who are underworked.
- In the first eight months I was working there, I was chronically underworked, and yet they employed an intern, and threw work at him.
- Maybe we should learn by trial and error by either overworking or underworking our swimmers.
Synonyms
undertow, underflow, underswell, underdrift, understream, undertide, underrun