underpopulated
IPA: ˈʌndɝpˈɑpjʌɫeɪtɪd
adjective
- Having an insufficient population for economic viability
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Examples of "underpopulated" in Sentences
- Today the population is around 5,000, and the place still seems underpopulated.
- The countryside languishes in poor countries, in part because it is underpopulated.
- Maybe large underpopulated cities like Detroit could be the locations of guest-worker programs or something?
- “Maybe large underpopulated cities like Detroit could be the locations of guest-worker programs or something?”
- Care to explain how Europe could have settled “underpopulated” North America without “maltreatment” of the natives?
- One scene of "Housewives" was set at a reception hosted by lobbyist Edwina Rogers -- a strangely underpopulated affair.
- They came to a neglected backwater of the Ottoman Empire, underpopulated and peopled primarily by local peasants who rarely had any “identity” beyond their local clan and their Christian or Islamic faith, and divided between 3 larger Ottoman districts.
- "The market is underpopulated, and there's much more demand for capital than supply," said Mauro Moretti , a manager for Hutton Collins with a €600 million portfolio that does two or three investments a year in Italy, although it focuses on taking minority stakes in larger companies with at least €200 million in annual revenue.
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