Definitions
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- adjective not
burdened withworries ,cares orresponsibilities - adjective free of
encumbrance - adjective of
property , not subject to anyclaims
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- adjective not burdened with cares or responsibilities
- adjective free of encumbrance
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Examples
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Can the tired modernist fiction that the direct experience of the object must remain unencumbered by the frame of context really still be operative?
The museum/academic divide, museum labels and mobile-accessible interpretation... Mia 2009
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Can the tired modernist fiction that the direct experience of the object must remain unencumbered by the frame of context really still be operative?
Archive 2009-04-01 Mia 2009
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I lack her physicality, but more than make up for it in unencumbered motivation.
365 tomorrows » 2008 » July : A New Free Flash Fiction SciFi Story Every Day 2008
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Virtually allowing 19 of militants known to be in the US to board airliners unencumbered is not intelligence when even Israels Mossad knew of the plan.
Candidate for C.I.A. Post Withdraws His Name - The Caucus Blog - NYTimes.com 2008
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"The worker" under capitalism is implicitly defined as unencumbered by any obligations other than those to the job, and work is usually organized on the basis of this assumption.
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How pleased he was to show me something he could describe as unencumbered!
Whirligigs O. Henry 1886
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So what's happening is we have - as we talked about significant protection from our captives and stop losses in the future, that we will recognize, that we will have coming into our income statement in the forms of what I will call unencumbered premium.
Financial Sector and Stocks Analysis from Seeking Alpha 2008
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So what's happening is we have - as we talked about significant protection from our captives and stop losses in the future, that we will recognize, that we will have coming into our income statement in the forms of what I will call unencumbered premium.
Financial Sector and Stocks Analysis from Seeking Alpha 2008
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So what's happening is we have - as we talked about significant protection from our captives and stop losses in the future, that we will recognize, that we will have coming into our income statement in the forms of what I will call unencumbered premium.
unknown title 2008
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So long as they remain "unencumbered" they can subsist on a comparatively small income and find freedom and leisure to watch for and follow opportunities of self-advancement; they can travel, get knowledge and experience, make experiments, succeed.
sherry28 commented on the word unencumbered
" ...in a financial mess but totally unencumbered...".From: All we ever wanted was everything. Author: Janelle Brown. Page 384
October 16, 2010