underdeveloped

Preposition: in

• area: Shared care schemes with GPs were also underdeveloped in some areas.
• comparison: Such services are often underdeveloped in comparison with the trunk routes and many new markets are being opened up.
• country: However, the biomass industry remains underdeveloped in most industrialized countries.
• school: The involvement of governors in target-setting is underdeveloped in most schools.

Preposition: within

curriculum: Weaknesses Interprofessional learning is as yet underdeveloped within the academic curriculum ( paragraph 33 ).

Modifies a noun

• country: To procure the foreign exchange to service its foreign debt, such underdeveloped countries must increase their exports.
• nation: We must now carry this policy into the wider world where the gap between the industrialized and the underdeveloped nations is still so great.
• region: Just a few examples: Cuban doctors have been working for years in the most underdeveloped regions of the world.
• character: Mattie Silver, Ethan's object of desire, is an underdeveloped character in the most extreme sense of the phrase.
• economy: Both joined the E.U. ( Slovakia last spring ) with relatively underdeveloped economies.
• world: Similar situations exist in much of the underdeveloped world.

Modifying Another Word

• economically: The vocational training program is a key project to improve the economically underdeveloped area, where 56 % of girls are illiterate.
• relatively: This is a relatively underdeveloped theme within policy research on clusters.
• rather: Puzzles are easy, while combat and stealth sections feel rather underdeveloped.
• yet: Although the legal issues are as yet underdeveloped, this approach manages to bring home the relevant issues in an interesting and informative way.
• still: However, the built-in download manager is still underdeveloped.
• too: Jheng's successful conquest of Taiwan afforded him only temporary foothold and limited resources, as Taiwan was too underdeveloped to offer immediate benefit.

Used with adjective complement

• remain: However, the biomass industry remains underdeveloped in most industrialized countries.
• seem: While this decision affects small details of the story later in the game, the whole ' choice ' aspect seems pretty underdeveloped.
• feel: Puzzles are easy, while combat and stealth sections feel rather underdeveloped.