Usually means: Performing less than capacity allows.
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  1. underwork: Merriam-Webster.com
  2. underwork: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. underwork: Collins English Dictionary
  4. underwork: Wordnik
  5. underwork: Wiktionary
  6. underwork: Infoplease Dictionary
  7. Underwork, underwork: Dictionary.com
  8. Underwork: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  9. underwork: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  10. Underwork: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  11. underwork: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  12. underwork: Free Dictionary
  13. Underwork: Dictionary/thesaurus

Definitions from Wiktionary (underwork)

verb:  (transitive) To require too little work from; to work insufficiently.
verb:  (intransitive, obsolete) To work or operate in secret or clandestinely.
verb:  (transitive, intransitive) To do less work than necessary (on).
verb:  (intransitive) To do work for inadequate payment.
verb:  (transitive) To injure by working secretly; to destroy or overthrow by clandestine measure; to undermine.
verb:  (transitive) To do similar work for a lesser price than; to undercut.
noun:  Subordinate work; petty business.

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