Definition of "underserve" [underserve]

• To supply with insufficient services, especially social and health services. (verb-transitive)

American Heritage(R) Dictionary of the English Language, Fifth Edition. Copyright (c) 2011 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.

• "So it makes perfect sense overserve what already has much better public transportation and to continue to underserve the most underserved areas."
• "To do so, however, is to miss connecting with a huge part of the Latino population, to undersell us and underserve us, to misrepresent us and misunderstand us."
• "Kurbla writes: "Does the fact that, by Caplan's own admission, a free market in health insurance would underserve sick people show a real problem with the laissez-faire approach?""