underseek

Meanings

verbunderseek (third-person singular simple present underseeks, present participle underseeking, simple past and past participle undersought)

present singular third person underseeks · participle present underseeking · participle past undersought · past undersought

transitiveotherwise rareTo examine; explore; investigate.
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.
2007, Michael Flynn, Eifelheim - Page 206
transitiveTo spend too little time or effort in seeking.
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 ^([sic]) health care services.
2007, Paul Richard Brezinski, Veteran Status, Health Status, and Use of Health Services - Page 24
1 more example
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.
2008, Benjamin N. Cardozo School of Law, Symposium: the domestic commander in chief - Page 1277

Also see

From Middle English underseken, onderseken (also undersechen), from Old English undersēcan (“to investigate, examine”), equivalent to under- + seek. Cognate with West Frisian ûndersykje (“to research”), Dutch onderzoeken (“to investigate, probe, examine”), German untersuchen (“to examine, investigate, explore”).

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