underemployed

Definitions of underemployed
  1. adjective
    employed only part-time when one needs full-time employment or not making full use of your skills
    “migrants are likely to be poor and underemployed”
    “able people are kept underemployed”
    synonyms:
    part-time, parttime
    involving less than the standard or customary time for an activity
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