Meaning of underplacement | Babel Free

Definitions

1. Placement below or subordinate to others.
   countable, uncountable
2. Assignment to a placement that does not fully use the person's talents.
   countable, uncountable
3. Extreme underconfidence.
   countable, uncountable

Examples

“the underplacement of gifted students”

“After graduation, he landed a job as a patent clerk in the Swiss city of Bern, which qualifies as one of the great professional underplacements of all time.”

“The mistake of overplacement has led eager and ambitious entrepreneurs to throw their life savings into ventures that fail. The mistake of underplacement, on the other hand, regularly leads to terrible missed opportunities by those who would have succeeded had they only the courage to try.”

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