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- adjective Insufficiently
productive .
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Examples
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Some "underproductive" litigators also were let go, firm Chairman Elliott Portnoy said.
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At first, he babbled on in the 'good-buddy' way that underproductive men often do.
December 15, 2012 2010
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And that's a good thing, is, in fact, exactly what underproductive writers need to hear.
Hillary Rettig: How to Get Past the NaNoWriMo Danger Point and Finish Your Novel Hillary Rettig 2010
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Europe's aging and "cosseted" populations are underproductive and self-satisfied.
Prudential 2009
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France is mired in an antiquated economic and social system, overtaxed and overregulated, underemployed and underproductive, congenitally immobile when not sporadically violent.
The Royal Oui? 2007
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France is mired in an antiquated economic and social system, overtaxed and overregulated, underemployed and underproductive, congenitally immobile when not sporadically violent.
The Royal Oui? 2007
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Her ideas have been overworked and underproductive, her main themes no longer sound revolutionary but jaded, obvious, elementary.
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France is mired in an antiquated economic and social system, overtaxed and overregulated, underemployed and underproductive, congenitally immobile when not sporadically violent.
The Royal Oui? 2007
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So, with underproductive immigrants, the country as a whole produces more and gets richer, but the citizens, in average, get poorer.
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Attacking education bureaucracies and their overstaffed, overpaid, underproductive administrators is where we can find common ground, and it is where we are more likely to achieve real, meaningful reform in public education.
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