underwork (English, verb)
expansion: underwork (third-person singular simple present underworks, present participle underworking, simple past and past participle underworked or (archaic) underwrought)
Senses:
glosses: To require too little work from; to work insufficiently.
tags: transitive
glosses: To work or operate in secret or clandestinely.
tags: intransitive
obsolete
glosses: To do less work than necessary (on).
tags: ambitransitive
glosses: To do work for inadequate payment.
tags: intransitive
glosses: To injure by working secretly; to destroy or overthrow by clandestine measure; to undermine.
tags: transitive
glosses: To do similar work for a lesser price than; to undercut.
tags: transitive
Forms:
form: underworks
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: underworking
tags: participle
present
form: underworked
tags: participle
past
form: underworked
tags: past
form: underwrought
tags: archaic
participle
past
form: underwrought
tags: archaic
past