Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- adjective Not designated for a specific use.
- adjective Not possessed by, spoken for, or formally assigned to a particular person or organization.
from The Century Dictionary.
- Not appropriated.
- Not applied or directed to be applied to any other object, as money or funds: as, unappropriated funds in the treasury.
- Not granted or given to any person, company, or corporation: as, unappropriated lands.
- Not appropriated by any person: as, an unappropriated subject for a poem.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Not specially appropriate; having no special application.
- adjective Not granted to any person, corporation, or the like, to the exclusion of others.
- adjective Not granted for, or applied to, any specific purpose.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective That has not been
appropriated for a specific use, orassigned to a specific person or organization.
Etymologies
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Examples
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Chalkhill, a name unappropriated, a verbal phantom, a shadow of a shade.
Quotations 1919
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Chalkhill, a name unappropriated, a verbal phantom, a shadow of a shade.
Quotations 1919
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Chalkhill, a name unappropriated, a verbal phantom, a shadow of a shade.
Quotations 1919
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Chalkhill, -- a name unappropriated, a verbal phantom, a shadow of a shade.
Familiar Quotations A Collection of Passages, Phrases, and Proverbs Traced to Their Sources in Ancient and Modern Literature John Bartlett 1862
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It has been determined that there is "unappropriated" water from the Kern and the only remaining issue is who will get that water.
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Some decisions in tax court determined that the only retained earnings that could be subject to tax would be "those held for no reason" or the "unappropriated" retained earnings.
unknown title 2009
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"unappropriated," would be occupied by happy and contented settlers, who had laboured for years to build up their homes, only to discover that their titles were worthless, and to receive peremptory notice to quit.
Whirligigs O. Henry 1886
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The 1894 Utah enabling act says “That the people inhabiting said proposed State do agree and declare that they forever disclaim all right and title to the unappropriated public lands lying within the boundaries thereof; ...”
The Volokh Conspiracy » Can a State Use Eminent Domain to Take Federal Land? 2010
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Left-libertarians hold "that unappropriated natural resources belong to everyone in some egalitarian manner."
Mark Axelrod: Political Nomenclature; Or, Who Am I, Anyway? 2010
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Left-libertarians hold "that unappropriated natural resources belong to everyone in some egalitarian manner."
Mark Axelrod: Political Nomenclature; Or, Who Am I, Anyway? 2010
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