underpatronized
English
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From under- + patronized.
Pronunciation
[edit]Adjective
[edit]underpatronized (comparative more underpatronized, superlative most underpatronized)
- Not receiving enough clients or customers.
- 2008 April 6, Jonathan Raban, “Down and Out in America’s Last Boomtown”, in New York Times[1]:
- Likewise, the new $52 million, 1.3-mile streetcar line, a pet project of the mayor, which runs from downtown to the giant construction site of South Lake Union, and whose shiny red, orange and purple cars are cute, quaint and eerily underpatronized.