infrautilizar
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Spanish
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Pronunciation
[edit]- IPA(key): (Spain) /infɾautiliˈθaɾ/ [ĩɱ.fɾau̯.t̪i.liˈθaɾ]
- IPA(key): (Latin America, Philippines) /infɾautiliˈsaɾ/ [ĩɱ.fɾau̯.t̪i.liˈsaɾ]
- Rhymes: -aɾ
- Syllabification: in‧frau‧ti‧li‧zar
Verb
[edit]infrautilizar (first-person singular present infrautilizo, first-person singular preterite infrautilicé, past participle infrautilizado)
- (transitive) to underutilize, underuse
- 2015 July 19, “Las olas de calor disparan la quema de carbón para generar electricidad”, in El País[1]:
- Esto ha hecho que las infrautilizadas centrales de ciclo combinado hayan empezado a funcionar durante este mes.
- (please add an English translation of this quotation)
Conjugation
[edit] Conjugation of infrautilizar (c-z alternation) (See Appendix:Spanish verbs)
Derived terms
[edit]Further reading
[edit]- “infrautilizar”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014