Definition of "underperforming" []

• Present participle of underperform. (verb)
• That performs less well than required (adjective)

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• "General Motors notified 1,100 of what it called underperforming dealers that it wanted them to phase out their operations by October of next year to reflect the company's declining market share and, it said, to ensure the viability of the 3,600 to 4,000 expected to remain."
• "The fact is, if the stations were underperforming from a revenue side, it is a sales problem, not a programming problem."
• "GM is now telling eleven hundred dealerships described by the company as "underperforming" - that they will be terminated as the automaker watches its retail end take a serious turn for the worse."