Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- To furnish with an insufficient number of men.
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Examples
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Maybe there should be another underfunded, underman, per-emptive war on a soveriegn nation.
Think Progress » Report: Iraq Study Group Will Rule Out Victory In Iraq, Propose Redeployment 2006
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An underman or footman takes the place of this lofty being, and waits at table.
Manners and Social Usages Mrs. John M. E. W. Sherwood
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But the civilized world has awakened, as if from a long sleep, to look for the first time upon a real new day for the underman.
My Own Life Story Sterling Nelson 1924
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To acquaint themselves with the claims of the underman Americans thereafter prosecuted more seriously the study of Coke, Milton, Locke, and Blackstone.
The Education of the Negro Prior to 1861 A History of the Education of the Colored People of the United States from the Beginning of Slavery to the Civil War Carter Godwin Woodson 1912
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Within a time that can be approximately fixed, the Allies believe that Germany will have either to shorten her lines or underman them.
The Story of the Great War, Volume I (of 8) Introductions; Special Articles; Causes of War; Diplomatic and State Papers Francis Trevelyan Miller 1902
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Feudalism was a society in which the status of an individual was fixed: he was underman or overman in a rigid social scale according as he considered his relation to his superiors or to his inferiors.
The Armies of Labor A chronicle of the organized wage-earners Samuel Peter Orth 1897
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Yet though there were feast days gay with the color of pageantry and procession, the worker was always in a servile state, an underman dependent upon his master, and sometimes looking upon his condition as little better than slavery.
The Armies of Labor A chronicle of the organized wage-earners Samuel Peter Orth 1897
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Here was something definite and tangible for the stirring underman to lay hold upon.
The Honorable Senator Sage-Brush Francis Lynde 1893
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And then the newly aroused underman in him added: "You tell her that I want you to give me the evening, and let that settle it."
The Honorable Senator Sage-Brush Francis Lynde 1893
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In response to a vague stirring of something within him -- a thing which might have been the primitive underman yawning and stretching to its awakening -- he had been trying in the window-facing intervals to reconstruct the passing panorama of mountain and plain upon the recollections of his boyhood.
The Honorable Senator Sage-Brush Francis Lynde 1893
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