underaccommodate

present singular third person underaccommodates · participle present underaccommodating · participle past underaccommodated · past underaccommodated

1. alternativeAlternative form of under-accommodate.

   Giles and colleagues suggest that the elderly may underaccomodate the needs of younger social partners.

   1996, Monisha Pasupathi, Aging and Social Influence, page 4

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   Similarly, speech accommodation theory predicts that people over accomod ate (e.g., use baby talk) or underaccomodate (e.g., insufficiently engage) based on their expectations, but the theory does not focus uniquely on stereotypic expectations or prejudices against the target group.

   2001, Janet B. Ruscher, Prejudiced Communication: A Social Psychological Perspective, →ISBN