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underattendance

noun

Etymology

From under- + attendance.

  1. derived from atendance
  2. inherited from attendance
  3. prefixed as underattendance — “under + attendance”

Definitions

  1. Attendance too infrequently, or by too few.

    • […] any honest student of conditions in rural churches is confronted by staggering and depressing statistics of overchurching and underattendance in some sections, and of entire lack of attendance due to no churching at all in others.
    • The underattendance of boys at high schools was a cause of regular lament by all, including girl students who were left without escorts after school social functions.

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sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA