The word "underused" is correct and usable in written English.
You can use it when you want to describe something that is not used as much as it could or should be. For example: "This beach is often underused, despite its stunning location."
Most experts say that antidepressants are over-prescribed for some people but underused in others.
Currently, pointers from agencies are often hard to come by, while feedback from refugees or people in crisis is grossly underused.
The kidnapped air hostess turned sidekick, feistily played by Rae Dawn Chong, gets some good lines, wisely puncturing one scene with "I can't believe this macho bullshit" – but she's underused.
This suggests that for all of Mr Kasarda's bold, futurist predictions, at the heart of his thesis lurks a simple fact: airports encourage growth and development, and the land surrounding airports is often undervalued and underused.
Beijing's Bird's Nest, the wonder of the world in 2008, is underused, goggled at by day-trippers and the odd concert-goer.
Thomas Malone, of the MIT Sloan School of Management, argues that computer technology is producing an age of hyper-specialisation, as the process that Adam Smith observed in a pin factory in the 1760s is applied to more sophisticated jobs.Another is the ability to tap underused capacity.
A broader measure of unemployment that includes discouraged and underused workers has fallen even further (see chart).The Federal Reserve has been toying for months with plans for a new round of "quantitative easing"—the purchase of bonds with newly created money as a way of stimulating demand.
New Yorkers seeking a clean, well-lighted place to park their computers are finding fewer and fewer options to satisfy their needs.One alternative for New York City residents to consider is the criminally underused Edna Barnes Salomon Room at the Stephen Schwarzman branch of the New York Public Library (NYPL).
This is the "virtual" Verbund; a large chemical site where a number of independent companies could voluntarily work together to achieve the same economies of scale, but use different processes as market conditions change.A.T. Kearney suggests that something like this might be done at some of the chemical sites in Germany where production capacity is underused.
Other sites are too small or are underused, but cannot be closed for political reasons.BASF has recently been adding to its product range in a big way.
In preparation for his move from the Kremlin, Mr Putin gave himself extra powers, including oversight of regional governors; and transferred more mundane tasks to some ministries, giving himself time to concentrate on strategic tasks.According to Mr Peskov, as prime minister Mr Putin will use powers that were underused by his predecessors.
