underplacement
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4ADJ.
gifted, other
VERB + UNDERPLACEMENT
mistake
UNDERPLACEMENT + NOUN
students
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on
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noun
Placement below or subordinate to others.
Assignment to a placement that does not fully use the person's talents.
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.
Extreme underconfidence.
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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3the underplacement of gifted students
WiktionaryAfter 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.
WiktionaryThe 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 terribl
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