Underseek
Origin
From Middle English underseken, onderseken (also undersechen), from Old English undersēcan ("to investigate, examine"), equivalent to - + seek. Cognate with Dutch onderzoeken ("to investigate, probe, examine"), German untersuchen ("to examine, investigate, explore").
Full definition of underseek
Verb
- (transitive) To examine; explore; investigate.
- 2007, Michael Flynn, Eifelheim - Page 206:Hans parted his lips. "Underseeking your customs was the Kratzer's great work, and I have the sentence in my head that this example will please him. Perhaps.
- (transitive) To spend too little time or effort in seeking.
- 2007, Paul Richard Brezinski, Veteran Status, Health Status, and Use of Health Services - Page 24:Bindman et al. (1995) found that there is little propensity to underseek care for serious conditions indicating that need can be a substantial motive for the use health care services.
- 2008, Benjamin N. Cardozo School of Law, Symposium: the domestic commander in chief - Page 1277:While basic economic theory predicts that all collective or public goods will be "underdemanded" due to collective action problems, the extent to which public goods are undersought is a function of the size of the group benefiting from the public good and the distribution of benefits within that group.