Underage

Definition: Underage

Underage

Adjective

1. (law) not of legal age; "minor children".

2. Dependent by virtue of youth.

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Economics

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Synonyms: Underage

Crosswords: Underage

My co-founder has just died in the bed of an underage black whore (The Birdcage; writing credit: Jean Poiret; Francis Veber)

Look buddy, I'm underage. Not unless you're one of those perverts who gets off on little kids (Angel; writing credit: Joseph Michael Cala; Robert Vincent O'Neill)

Then I learned to play some lead guitar, I was underage in this funky bar (Late In The Evening; performing artist: Paul Simon)

Underage (1982)

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Books

• All About Underage Drinking (Family Forum Library Series) (reference)

• Preventing underage drinking : a dialogue with the surgeon general : hearing before the Select Committee on Children, Youth, and Families, House of Representatives, One Hundred Second Congress, first session, hearing held in Washington, DC, November 15, 1 (reference)

• Underage (Luna Cornea , No 9) (reference)

• Underage and Overweight: America's Childhood Obesity Epidemic--What Every Parent Needs to Know (reference)

  (more book examples)

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Business

Given this ample supply of adult laborers, most employers in China choose not to risk fines and possible arrest by hiring underage workers. (references)

Children

Liberia

The armed forces continued to recruit forcibly underage soldiers. (references)

Kyrgyz Republic

The MVD reports that each year as many as 30 underage girls are kidnaped to become brides. (references)

Dominican Republic

Prostitution is the principal area of exploitation of underage girls in the informal economy. (references)

Civil Liberties

Zimbabwe

Human rights activists also have criticized these indigenous churches for their sanctioning of marriages for underage girls. (references)

Economic History

Guatemala

Many of these are underage for formal sector employment. (references)

Human Rights

Paraguay

In May a military court sentenced Colonel Julio Cesar Cardozo to 1 year in prison for not preventing the conscription of over 90 underage soldiers. (references)

Minorities

Egypt

However, there are credible reports of government harassment of Christian families that attempt to regain custody of their daughters, and of the failure of the authorities to uphold the law (which states that a marriage of a girl under the age of 16 is prohibited, and between the ages of 16 and 21 is illegal, without the approval and presence of her guardian) in cases of marriage between underage Christian girls and Muslim boys. (references)

Political Economy

Paraguay

The recruitment and conscription of underage minors continued, although a court convicted one military officer of enlisting minors. (references)

OMAN

Nonetheless, small family businesses in practice may employ underage children, particularly in the agricultural and fisheries sectors. (references)

Women

Bosnia and Herzegovina

A woman with underage children may not be required to perform shift work. (references)

Worker Rights

Thailand

Underage workers also are employed as domestic servants. (references)

Laos

Some garment factories reportedly employ a very small number of underage girls. (references)

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Expression using "underage": underage sex. Additional references.

Albanian

i mitur (infant, minor, ward). (various references)

Arabic 

‏قاصر (child, infant, minor, small), ‏تحت سن البلوغ, ‏تحت السن القانونية. (various references)

Czech

nezletilý (minor, under age), mladistvý (adolescent, juvenile, teenage, youthful). (various references)

Farsi 

فروسال , نابالغ (Immature, Unfledged, Unripe), کمترازسن قانونی , صغیر (Lesser, Lowly). (various references)

French

mineur (under age, unimportant). (various references)

German

minderjährig (under age). (various references)

Greek 

μικρότερασ τησ δέουσησ ηλικίασ, ανήλικοσ (minor). (various references)

Hungarian

kiskorú (minor, to be under age, under age). (various references)

Italian

minorenne (juvenile, minor, under age). (various references)

Pig Latin

erageunday.(various references)

Russian 

несовершеннолетний (minor, minors, under age, under-age). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian

nepunoletan (immature), maloletan (juvenile). (various references)

Spanish

pupilar (pupilary, under age). (various references)

Swedish

underårig (under age), omyndig (minor, under age), minderårig (infant, juvenile, under age). (various references)

Turkish

yaşı tutmayan (under age). (various references)

Turkmen 

kiзi (juvenile, small). (various references)

Derivations

Words beginning with "underage": underages. (additional references)

Misspellings

"Underage" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Anderegg, Dunderdale, Rudaragi, underego, underrage, ungerade. (additional references)

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Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Direct Anagrams: dungaree.

-1 letter: angered, derange, enraged, grandee, grenade, uneager.

-2 letters: agreed, argued, augend, danger, dengue, dragee, earned, endear, endure, enrage, enured, gander, garden, geared, gender, genera, gerund, neared, nudger, ranged, unaged, unread.

-3 letters: agene, agree, anger, argue, auger, denar, eager, eagre, eared, edger, ender, endue, enure, genre, genua, grade, grand, greed, green, guard, nuder, nudge, raged.

+1 letter: dungarees, underages.

+2 letters: encouraged, guaranteed, underglaze, unenlarged.

+3 letters: beardtongue, deuterating, guardedness, reeducating, undercharge, undereating, underglazes, unendearing, unregulated.

+4 letters: beardtongues, deregulating, deregulation, endeavouring, nonregulated, outgeneraled, unbridgeable, undercharged, undercharges, undergarment, unexpurgated, ungerminated, unintegrated, unsegregated.

+5 letters: counterargued, dangerousness, deregulations, deuteragonist, gelandesprung, gradualnesses, groundbreaker, guardednesses, overeducating, regardfulness, undercarriage, undergarments, undergraduate, underreacting, unguardedness.