Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- adjective Not having been collected; ungathered.
from The Century Dictionary.
- Not collected; not brought to one place; not received: as, uncollected taxes; debts uncollected.
- Not having one's thoughts collected; not having control of one's mental faculties; not recovered from confusion, distraction, or wandering.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective Not
collected
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adjective not brought together in one place
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Examples
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Therefore, I am working on a third book that will contain uncollected letters-to-the-editor, book introductions and interviews and which will complete the collecting of London's writing for publication (this excludes only personal letters).
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When the plan goes awry, 'Lisa' sifts through the town's financial records discovering millions in uncollected city taxes.
Archive 2008-04-01 Michael Stevens 2008
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About half the residents use them as ordinary dustbins, whereupon the rotting contents remain uncollected, the bins sporting "contaminated" stickers applied by diligent council workers.
A plague on your houses Richard 2006
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As its subtitle will indicate, it collects together "uncollected poems" from 1995-2009 "uncollected" meaning poems not previously published in earlier books.
Archive 2009-07-01 2009
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As its subtitle will indicate, it collects together "uncollected poems" from 1995-2009 "uncollected" meaning poems not previously published in earlier books.
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I felt bad for those poems, those "uncollected" ones so far.
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I felt bad for those poems, those "uncollected" ones so far.
Archive 2009-06-01 2009
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After Paul Levitz and Joe Staton stopped doing the pre-crisis character, those Wonder Woman backups got absolutely awful, and I’m glad they remain uncollected.
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In an effort to cling to his pledge, the governor and his staff have played semantic games and said he is not raising taxes but going after "uncollected" taxes.
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Obviously, this means that in order to deposit the rebate check, I now have to visit an actual bank branch - not a big deal for me, but I'm sure that this extra hurdle for enough people that it edges the "uncollected" percentage up a couple points, which is good news for everyone except the customer.
Consumerist 2009
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